Mother and Child in a Balcony
16th– 17th Century CE
TSM Accession: 1307
Pleach No: PIF/000DMP4
Title: Mother and Child in a Balcony
Style: Golconda School – Deccani Miniature
Artist: Unknown
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Dimensions: 14.5 x 22.5 cms
Period: 16th-17th century CE
Rights: Telangana State Museum, Hyderabad
Documented by: Pleach India Foundation, Hyderabad
This painting beautifully illustrates a Begum (mother) with her child, capturing the refined style of the Qutb Shahi era.
The painting, likely commissioned to demonstrate affection between a Begum and her child playing on a terrace, combines profile and three-quarter views of the figures in a traditional style.
The woman stands close to her child, her head covered by a fully decorated golden dupatta, which she supports with her right hand. She is visualised lowering her gaze to her child, as he looks in the other direction.
