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Several women in plain white sarees with gold borders clean and polish ornate gold-painted furniture in a large hall with polished tiled floors. In the foreground a woman with a braid and a white forehead mark leans over a carved gold lion-headed stand, wiping it with a cloth. Behind her a woman in a white saree and a red waist sash walks past a metal scaffold, and another woman in a pale blue salwar kameez works on the floor at right. Further back a gold throne with red cushions and a gold canopy-style seat stands beside framed paintings on the walls, and a ladder leans nearby. Green lanyards hang around the women's necks.

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