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JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN. NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
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TWO PAINTINGS OF CHINNAMASTA AND DURGA
JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN. NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the ferocious aspect of Devi as the self-decapitating goddess Chinnamasta, holding her head on a tray, flanked by attendants drinking her blood, with thin yellow margins, within white and black rules, with heavily faint pink borders; Devi as Durga, haloed, seated on a lotus, holding her attributes, an attendant holding a peacock feather to her side, with thin yellow margins within black and white rules, with light blue borders, each with inscriptions in black devanagari script to the reverse and with fly-leaf stamped with numbered Mandi royal collection stamp
The Larger 11 ½ x 7 ½in. (29.4 x 19cm.)
JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN. NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1840
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the ferocious aspect of Devi as the self-decapitating goddess Chinnamasta, holding her head on a tray, flanked by attendants drinking her blood, with thin yellow margins, within white and black rules, with heavily faint pink borders; Devi as Durga, haloed, seated on a lotus, holding her attributes, an attendant holding a peacock feather to her side, with thin yellow margins within black and white rules, with light blue borders, each with inscriptions in black devanagari script to the reverse and with fly-leaf stamped with numbered Mandi royal collection stamp
The Larger 11 ½ x 7 ½in. (29.4 x 19cm.)
Provenance
Mandi Royal Collection