Couple in clay

Two baked and painted figures of a Parsi couple in clay (pictured below) made in Poona and acquired by the Prince of Wales Museum of Western India (now Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya) in the 1920s are on display for the first time at the Special Exhibitions Gallery at the Museum. Approximately a foot tall, the woman is depicted in a pink sari and the moustachioed man with a pugree and dagla with somewhat pinkish trousers. The name of the creator of the works and how the Museum acquired them was not known, Joyoti Roy, head of marketing at the Museum told Parsiana in an email.
Titled "Indian Life and People in the 19th century,” the exhibition of Company paintings and other artefacts from the Museum’s collection, jointly with Ahmedabad-based private collectors was inaugurated on December 6, 2018 and will continue till January 7, 2019. Company paintings is a term for a hybrid Indo-European style of paintings made in India by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons in the British East India Company.