The youthful Basohli ruler Medini Pal, who died aged 22 in 1736, sits smoking on a garden terrace. A young concubine waits upon him, tending his hookah and holding a quid of pan (betel leaf) which she will presently offer to the keen-eyed Raja. He wears the same Mughal jewelled pendant as his grandfather Kirpal Pal, depicted in the previous painting [LI118.37].
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 63 on p. 150, illus. p. 151
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