Lot Essay
The bold simplicity of the colour scheme and iconography of this painting are very unusual.
Various Properties
Sri Nath-ji
Details
Sri Nath-ji
possibly Kotah, circa 1840
gouache on cloth, painted mostly in monchrome grey-blue, within a plaited arch containing cartouches of figures and animals, the god stands, wearing a green turban, white dhoti and jewellery, with his left hand raised and his right hand at his waist, while a massive snake entwines itself round his body, white border with inscription below, polychrome floral outer border, wooden stretcher at either end
57 x 34½in. (145 x 88cm.)
possibly Kotah, circa 1840
gouache on cloth, painted mostly in monchrome grey-blue, within a plaited arch containing cartouches of figures and animals, the god stands, wearing a green turban, white dhoti and jewellery, with his left hand raised and his right hand at his waist, while a massive snake entwines itself round his body, white border with inscription below, polychrome floral outer border, wooden stretcher at either end
57 x 34½in. (145 x 88cm.)