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A painting of the visitation to a great sage
NORTH INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A painting of the visitation to a great sage
North India, late 18th/early 19th century
The sage wearing a brocade cap and seated on a mat beneath a tree, surrounded by worshippers and musicians with tonsured hair and beaded necklaces, a black elephant bearing an older woman and two riders on a patchwork quilt and offering mangoes and lotuses, with further acolytes standing with folded hands or protrating themselves, all on a gently rolling background beneath a blue sky and surrounded by red borders
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
10 x 13 in. (26 x 33 cm.)
North India, late 18th/early 19th century
The sage wearing a brocade cap and seated on a mat beneath a tree, surrounded by worshippers and musicians with tonsured hair and beaded necklaces, a black elephant bearing an older woman and two riders on a patchwork quilt and offering mangoes and lotuses, with further acolytes standing with folded hands or protrating themselves, all on a gently rolling background beneath a blue sky and surrounded by red borders
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
10 x 13 in. (26 x 33 cm.)
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