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A seated couple in folk-style wedding finery sits on an ornate gold-and-pink throne-like seat in front of a colourful painted temple backdrop. The woman wears a blue and green silk sari with bangles, a red bindi and dark braided hair, and presses her palms together in namaste. The man wears a cream embroidered kurta with a gold-brown shawl, his palms also joined, and both wear red and yellow garlands. Trays of fruit, grapes, sweets and flowers sit in the foreground, and a brass oil lamp stands at the left edge. A painted deity figure holding a staff is at the left. Two people are visible.

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