This plate holds the exquisite image of Mumtaz Mahal, beautiful and demure. The royal poets wrote that her loveliness made the moon hide its face in shame, while the stars extinguished their light in fear of being compared to her radiance. She was intelligent, charitable, compassionate, generous; in short, a model of feminine virtue. Here she is seen in a three-quarter, holding a rose in her hennaed hand. She wears an elaborate headdress which looks like a turban with the center jutting out like a hat. It has two differently shaped kalgis. The ends of the striped turban roughly come out of the back. She wears jewellery in her ears, neck, wrists and fingers. Mumtaz Mahal's dreamy eyes stare into space and a gentle smile plays on her small lips. A rich magenta curtain folds behind her throne. Through the window chiseled in the marble wall, we see shrubs, plantains and the deep blue sky.
The artist has used mainly traditional colours for the traditional portrait of Arjumand Banu, popularly known as Mumtaz Mahal.
This description by Renu Rana.
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