The painting, a fine miniature rendered in characteristic mughal style as prevailed around 1640-50 during the period of the mughal emperor shahjahan, represents three ladies, obviously the court-related, performing dance in a pavilion. except on special occasions like marriage in mughal culture ladies were rarely represented dancing, and with no festivity around the painting is not indicative of any such occasion; however, its mughal character reflects in the entire painting. the ladies’ iconographic features – sharp noses, large eyes, delicate lips and slender figures, the style of costumes, body gestures, diffusion of colours and their light tones, all link them with mughal court-life and style.