A PRINCE AND COMPANION AT A MUSICAL EVENING PROPERTY FROM THE SAM KENRICK (1953 - 2016) COLLECTION OF INDIAN PAINTINGS Possibly Hyderabad, Deccan, Central India, late 18th - early 19th century Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the moonlit bannistered terrace on a river bend with a fashionable young prince leaning against a bejewelled elegant lady on a Mughal summer carpet embroidered with vines, a lantern to the right, a group of five musicians and attendants to the left, a white bed between the two groups, the singer and the wine-drinking sitar player having placed turbans on the floor, a number of elegant vessels on display, the verso inscribed in Persian nasta'liq and English 'The Prince Bedar Bukht with Musicians', 1788 in pencil in a later hand, mounted, framed and glazed, 17.5cm x 27.5cm, 36cm x 44cm including the frame. Provenance: Bonhams London, 5 November 2014, lot 296; Brightwells Auction, 22 - 23 March 2017, lot 841.