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# Painting

Painted in opaque watercolour on paper, a prince, seated and smoking a huqqa, is surrounded by a group of courtiers and retainers, whose clothes are stained with yellow and crimson from the Holi festival. In the foreground are two servants with lighted torches and vessals for re-fuelling them.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1785–1794 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-180-1951](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.is-180-1951) · Pramāṇa
