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GARUDA DEVOURS ELEPHANTS
Lot 36

GARUDA DEVOURS ELEPHANTS

PROBABLY UDAIPUR, MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1760

Closed26 May 2016

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GARUDA DEVOURS ELEPHANTS
PROBABLY UDAIPUR, MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Opaque pigments on paper, the fierce bird with flaming feathers, holding elephants in its beak and claws, standing within a hilly landscape on dark blue ground, within blue, black and silver rules and red borders
8 x 7 1/8in. (20.4 x 18.3cm.)

Ex Oscar Leneman Collection
Sotheby’s Colonnade, London, 18 October 1996, lot 64

Specialist note

In order to get the strength to steal the nectar of immortality (amrita) from the gods, Garuda devours six elephants.