A Box covered and lined with brocade containing a card painted with a face, and with a verandah covered with a striped rug; also twelve mica overlays depicting dancers and musicians.
ca.1860
Unknown
SSEA
Cover, painted on card with a floral design. One of two from a box containing a card painted with a face and with a veranda covered with a striped rug, and 12 paintings on mica of costumes of Indian dancers, reciters and musicians. The mica costume paintings can be placed interchangeably over the background to depict a human figure. There is also a handwritten note on paper in Queen Mary's handwriting.
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