THE PRIEST DAUJI II WORSHIPS SHRINATHJI
THE PRIEST DAUJI II WORSHIPS SHRINATHJI
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THE PRIEST DAUJI II WORSHIPS SHRINATHJI

KOTA, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1830

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THE PRIEST DAUJI II WORSHIPS SHRINATHJI
KOTA, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1830
Gouache heightened with gold and silver on card, set within indigo borders with white rules, the margins red with white devanagari inscription, the verso plain with inventory marks
Painting 9 ¼ x 6 ¾in. (23.5 x 17.2cm.); folio 10 ½ x 7 7⁄8in. (26.5 x 20.2cm.)

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INSCRIPTIONS:
In the upper margin sri pavitra aikadasi ko uchava hai '[this] is the celebration of the Sacred on the eleventh day of the lunar month.'

Another painting of Dauji II (1797-1826) is in the Mittal Museum, Hyderabad (illustrated Beach, Glynn, Mittal, Seyller and Topsfield, Rajasthani Painting in the Jagdish and Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art, Hyderabad, 2015, no, 57, pp.148-9). Dauji is credited with greatly promoting artistic production in Nathdwara during his tenure, employing an atelier of painters and building lakes, public buildings and a palace for himself.

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