SUB-IMPERIAL MUGHAL, INDIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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PATMANJARI RAGINI
SUB-IMPERIAL MUGHAL, INDIA, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
An illustration from a Ragamala series, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set between a gold border and black rules, pasted onto later silver-speckled paper margins with 3ll. black devanagari in the upper margin, the verso plain
Painting 8 ¾ x 6 5⁄8in. (22 x 16.9cm.); folio 11 1⁄8 x 8 ¾in. (28.1 x 22.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

The Patmanjari Ragini, of the Sri Raga group, shows the heroine lonesome and longing for her absent lover. She is accompanied by a confidante who tries to console her. Another Provincial Mughal depiction of the same musical mode is illustrated in C. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, C8, p.41. Another folio from this series sold Bonhams, New York, 17 September 2014, lot 104.

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