SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1730

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A LADY IN A JHAROKA WINDOW
SAWAR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1730
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set within buff borders with black rules, the reverse plain with short devanagri inscription
Painting 10 ½ x 9 1⁄8in. (26 x 23.1cm.); folio 11 ¼ x 9 5⁄8in. (28.3cm. x 24.6cm.)

Provenance

Anon sale, Sotheby Park Bernet, New York, 14 December 1979, lot 159

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

A companion piece to this lot, with an almost identical subject but facing the other way, is now in the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2018.182 (https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.182 accessed 10/8/23). The description to that painting indicates that there are more in the series.

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