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KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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A SEATED PORTRAIT OF A MULTI-ARMED HINDU DEITY, POSSIBLY BALARAMA
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a seated deity in yellow robes, possibly Balarama, holding his attributes comprising a bow and arrow, sword and drinking cup, within black and red rules and pink speckled borders, with a line of black devanagari script to the reverse 'shri dvapar yuga praman + 864000 vartaman hoya hai' (a folio from the Dvapara Age which lasts 864,000 years)
10 5/8 x 7in. (27 x 17.7cm.)
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a seated deity in yellow robes, possibly Balarama, holding his attributes comprising a bow and arrow, sword and drinking cup, within black and red rules and pink speckled borders, with a line of black devanagari script to the reverse 'shri dvapar yuga praman + 864000 vartaman hoya hai' (a folio from the Dvapara Age which lasts 864,000 years)
10 5/8 x 7in. (27 x 17.7cm.)
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