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The plain blue background shows how important this prince is.

 

This Persian painting has a  blue background and wide gold border. It comes from a very wealthy part of India which had diamond mines, and so the people showed how rich they were through their paintings.

 

Paintings usually had a flat background made with a wash of plain colour.
 

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