Lot Essay
While this has been entitled 'Rama fighting the warriors of Lanka', it is not certain.
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Illustration to the Ramayana
possibly by Mir Kalan
Oudh, circa 1750-60
gouache heightened with gold on paper, at night by a Shiva shrine in a wooded glade by a lake, Rama shelters behind a tree shooting arrows at and wounding several of Lanka's warriors, who, following Rama's rescue of Sita from the tyrant, are attacking, more watch from the edge of the wood, on the left three servants draw Sita away while she casts admiring glances back at Rama, (negligible flaking), black-ground floral border between gold and black rules, mounted, framed and glazed
miniature 6¼ x 10in. (16.1 x 25.3cm.)
possibly by Mir Kalan
Oudh, circa 1750-60
gouache heightened with gold on paper, at night by a Shiva shrine in a wooded glade by a lake, Rama shelters behind a tree shooting arrows at and wounding several of Lanka's warriors, who, following Rama's rescue of Sita from the tyrant, are attacking, more watch from the edge of the wood, on the left three servants draw Sita away while she casts admiring glances back at Rama, (negligible flaking), black-ground floral border between gold and black rules, mounted, framed and glazed
miniature 6¼ x 10in. (16.1 x 25.3cm.)