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SORATH RAGINI, WIFE OF MEGH RAGA
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SORATH RAGINI, WIFE OF MEGH RAGA

BILASPUR, CIRCA 1680-1700

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SORATH RAGINI, WIFE OF MEGH RAGA
Bilaspur, circa 1680-1700
From a Ragamala, gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicted seated on a throne holding a crane, before her a maid sitting with a dish, to the right a maid with a fly-whisk, inscribed on back in takri and Hindi, black margin on red leaf, slight flaking, edges reinforced, mounted
Folio 10½ x 7 1/3in. (26.5 x 19cm.); miniature 9½ x 6½ in. (14.2 x 26.4cm.)
Provenance
Bilaspur Royal Family
Thakur Ishwari Singh Chadela
Abdullah and Sons, Udaipur, March 1954
Literature
W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, Bilaspur no. 18(i), p. 176
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Lot Essay

The inscriptions on the reverse identify the subject in both takri and Hindi: ragini Sorath Megh ragedi bharja.

One other painting from the same ragamala is published in W.G. Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, Bilaspur, no. 18(ii), pp. 176-7. Archer's own notes on this painting go into considerable detail about the historical provenance of this and a further group of Bilaspur paintings.

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