Poster 'Page from a Polier album: Entertainments in a Harem' Size_Paper_L_475_700 The little bronze from the

The little bronze from the Musée National des Arts Asiatiques-Guimet belongs to this lot of pieces dating from the end of the Qhou Dynasty

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inlaid with mother-of-pearl and painted amber beads

Poster 'Page from a Polier album: Entertainments in a Harem' Size_Paper_L_475_700 The little bronze from theThis poster features a sheet from an album compiled by Colonel Antoine Louis de Polier (17411795), a French Swiss adventurer and collector resident in India in the middle of the 18th century. The front presents a harem scene with a group of women talking and smoking hookahs in the midst of maidservants, musicians and dancers. The structured background is inspired by the Persian art of gardens. The back bears a calligraphic "ghazal" or love poem.