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Tantric Paintings from the Collection of Jan Wichers
Two Tantric Paintings
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, 18TH CENTURY
Details
Two Tantric Paintings
India, Rajasthan, 18th Century
One painting with Vishnu's feet containing auspicious emblems enclosed within a lotus at the crux of a yellow svastika painted on a gray ground with white blossoms scattered between and with lotus blooms at the corners painted with a blue and yellow border, the smaller painting also with auspicious signs enclosed bu a double-lotus border and painted on a dark-green ground with devanagiri inscription above in a yellow frame
Painting of hands and feet: 9 x 61/8 in. (27.2 x 15.5 cm.); painting of feet: 91/8 x 6¾ in. (23.2 x 17.2 cm.) (2)
India, Rajasthan, 18th Century
One painting with Vishnu's feet containing auspicious emblems enclosed within a lotus at the crux of a yellow svastika painted on a gray ground with white blossoms scattered between and with lotus blooms at the corners painted with a blue and yellow border, the smaller painting also with auspicious signs enclosed bu a double-lotus border and painted on a dark-green ground with devanagiri inscription above in a yellow frame
Painting of hands and feet: 9 x 61/8 in. (27.2 x 15.5 cm.); painting of feet: 91/8 x 6¾ in. (23.2 x 17.2 cm.) (2)
Literature
A. Mookerjee, The Tantric Way, 1977, p. 82 illus.