JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1820-40

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FOUR PAINTINGS FROM A KRISHNA LILA SERIES
JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1820-40
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, each set within a green border with gold trailing vine decoration, the red margins painted with gold flowering sprays, a long yellow cartouche in the upper and lower margin containing one or two lines of black and red devanagari identifying the scenes, smaller cartouches to either side two of which are numbered in red, narrow yellow and green outer borders, pasted down onto card mounts, framed and glazed
Largest 8 ½ x 13 ¼ (21.6 x 33.5cm.); folio 11 1⁄8 x 15 ¾in. (28 x 40cm.)

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Lot Essay

Each painting illustrates a couplet of romantic poetry centred around the nayika and nayaka, here represented by Krishna and Radha, written in the cartouche in the upper margin with the cartouche below containing an explanation. A similar painting, perhaps from the same series, sold in these Rooms, 24 May 2017, lot 205 and another 10 October 2014, lot 94.

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