Live Auction 2425Indian and Southeast Asian Art
A Jain painting of Jambudvipa
Lot 280

A Jain painting of Jambudvipa

INDIA, RAJASTHAN, 19TH CENTURY

Closed22 March 2011

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USD 10,000

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A Jain painting of Jambudvipa
India, Rajasthan, 19th century
A large circle filled with multicolored vertical and horizontal bands each with text, surrounded by a blue band, with a yellow and red border and further text outside
22 x 22½ in. (55.8 x 57.1 cm.)

Ghigo Collection, London, acquired from Sotheby's, London, 16 February 1981, lot 431

Specialist note

In this detail of the madhyaloka, India is represented by a land mass at bottom center, emerging from the horizontal yellow band representing the Himalayas, and bordered by two rivers flowing from the mountains, the Indus and the Ganges. The Vaitadya mountain range, represented by the white horizontal band, traverses the land.