AMBER OR JAIPUR, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY

This illustration relates very closely to a group of dispersed Ragamala illustrations of similar bright palette and dimensions which have been variously attributed to Amber or Jaipur in the mid-18th century. An illustration from the set, Vibhasa Ragini, is in the National Museum, New Delhi (inv.no. 58.58 / 83; K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, C40, p.105). Another, Gunakali Ragini, is in the Cleveland Museum of Art (inv. 54.261). Three illustrations from the set were sold in these Rooms, 12 June 2018, lots 18-20. A group of thirty-six illustrations from the series was sold Sotheby's London, 27 March 1973, lots 65-100. In a sale at Sotheby's 1973, lot 97 was unillustrated but described as: "Kamodini Ragini: A Saivite Shrine with a lady dressed as a yogini worshipping, a girl waving a fly-whisk over her, a bed prepared on the right and a girl at a window above". It is likely this is the present lot.