BUNDI OR KOTA, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY

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A SCENE FROM THE MARKANDEYA PURANA
BUNDI OR KOTA, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, MID-18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a fierce battle scene between Hindu gods, including Durga, Indra, Vishnu and Skanda, and demons and their commanders, one line of black devanagari script below, mounted
9 ¼ x 5 1/8in. (23.5 x 13cm.)

Provenance

Doris Wiener Gallery, purchased on 7 April 1970

Exhibited

Doris Wiener Gallery, Winter exhibition, 1969-1970

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Lot Essay

For a comparable painting, see a leaf from a Kota Bhagavata Purana dated 1740-50 in the Cleveland Museum of Art (Linda York Leach, Indian Miniature Paintings and Drawings, Cleveland, 1986, cat.75, pp.194-195).

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