Poonah painting

[ From Poona, in Bombay Province, India. ] A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence:
Poonah brush,
paper,
painter, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]