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Devotional ritual scene in a gilded hall. A seated figure on an ornate gold throne wears a red-and-orange tilak, a white-and-yellow-and-red flower garland, and a long rudraksha-style mala over a red cloth; the figure is an appearance-based a person but identity is uncertain. Four attendants in orange cloth and orange turbans sit before him: the foreground man at left in a zebra-striped waistcloth, a man with a long braid raising one hand to scatter pink petals, a second attendant with a braid at right, and an attendant with white-painted arms holding a plate of pink flowers. Pink flower heaps, brass bowls and a kalasha-like vessel lie on a teal cloth before the throne, with a gold lattice screen behind.

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