A FOLIO FROM AN ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE BALAGOPALASTUTI

GUJARAT, NORTH WEST INDIA, CIRCA 1450-75 AD

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A FOLIO FROM AN ILLUSTRATED MANUSCRIPT OF THE BALAGOPALASTUTI
GUJARAT, NORTH WEST INDIA, CIRCA 1450-75 AD
A hymn in honour of the Child Krishna, opaque pigments on paper, the large illustration showing Krishna as a baby with his foster mother Yasoda within a house, each of the two women identified in black script at top, within yellow and red rules, six lines of Sanskrit text to the left, the reverse with five lines of text between red rules
Illustration 4 ½ x 4 3/8in. (11.5 x 11.3cm.); folio 4 ¾ x 9 3/8in. (12.2 x 23.8cm.)

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Other folios from this manuscript from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection are in the San Diego Museum of Art (1990-195 and 1990.193, see Sonya Rhie Quintanilla, ed., Visiones de la India, Rome, 2012, cat.26 and 27, pp.74-75). Another is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.88.49 (https://collections.lacma.org/node/170854). It is attributed to Gujarat, circa 1450-75 AD.

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