SARANG RAGINI AND A LADY OUT RIDING
SARANG RAGINI AND A LADY OUT RIDING
SARANG RAGINI AND A LADY OUT RIDING
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SARANG RAGINI AND A LADY OUT RIDING

INDIA, DECCAN, GOLCONDA OR HYDERABAD AND RAJASTHAN, KOTA, CIRCA 1700-1750

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SARANG RAGINI AND A LADY OUT RIDING
INDIA, DECCAN, GOLCONDA OR HYDERABAD AND RAJASTHAN, KOTA, CIRCA 1700-1750
The first depicting an illustration to a ragamala series with a lady holding the branch of a tree and her sakhi playing a sarangi, set on a green background, standing by a stream with lotuses and ducks, within thin black rules; the second depicting a lady dressed in a gold robes seated astride a large white horse with red undercarriage and gold bridle, with one hand on the horse's mane and the other on the horse's back steadying herself as she partially turns around to take a cup from a female attendant, another attendant holds a gold drinking flask and walks in front, with on either side trees and set on a turquoise background with cloudy dark-blue sky, within black border with silver lattice design and wide red margins
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper
11.34 x 8 ¼ in. (29.8 x 20.7 cm.), the larger
Provenance
2012.011: Christie's New York, The Doris Wiener Collection, 20 March 2012, lot 264.
2016.007: Sotheby's New York, 16 March 2016, lot 866.

Lot Essay

While produced in different regions, both works are strikingly similar with regards to the palette and the intricate details of the clothing. Kota artists prolifically reproduced ragamala paintings, stylistically influenced by works from the Mughal court and nearby Deccan, as evidenced also by the palette of light mint-green and pink. Although both paintings are possibly of the same subject, the image with the lady holding the branch follows iconography distinctive to ragamalas from Hyderabad. For further discussion, see K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, pp. 195, 257, figs. 80, 242.

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