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HYDERABAD, DECCAN, CIRCA 1770
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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: ASAVARI RAGINI OF MALKOS RAGA
HYDERABAD, DECCAN, CIRCA 1770
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the heroine seated on a rock near a river handling a snake, within gold and white rules, with red borders, the reverse inscribed with one line in black nasta'liq and in devanagari identifying the raga
Painting 8 1/8 x 5 ¼in. (20.5 x 13.2cm); folio 11 ¾ x 8 1/8in. (29.8 x 20,6cm.)
HYDERABAD, DECCAN, CIRCA 1770
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the heroine seated on a rock near a river handling a snake, within gold and white rules, with red borders, the reverse inscribed with one line in black nasta'liq and in devanagari identifying the raga
Painting 8 1/8 x 5 ¼in. (20.5 x 13.2cm); folio 11 ¾ x 8 1/8in. (29.8 x 20,6cm.)
Provenance
Galerie Marco Polo, Paris, 1983
Literature
L. Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Koblenz, 2011, fig.73, p.103
Exhibited
Blumen, Bäume, Göttergärten - Indische Malerei aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Museum für Völkerkunde, Hamburg, 15 March - 27 October 2013
Brought to you by
Louise Broadhurst