Company officer receives noblemen on a terrace

Painted by a Mughal-trained artist in eastern India, this is an unusually large and well observed scene of a high-ranking East India Company officer receiving two local noblemen in a Mughal style hall on a terrace. Wearing a braided green coat, the officer sits in presiding place on a European chair, smoking a hookah on a tripod table. Gardeners tend the vegetable plots below and a water-carrier waters the paths.

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