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DECCAN, INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
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AN ALBUM LEAF: ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: KEDAR RAGINI, AND TWO NASTA'LIQ QUATRAINS
DECCAN, INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting a devotee visiting an ascetic at night, the latter seated on a tiger skin outside his shrine smoking a huqqa, with a yogini playing a vina and a dog seated in the foreground, within narrow blue border with scrolling foliate motifs, white rules and wide red margins, an inscription in black nasta‘liq in upper margin 'pir birun’ (ascetic outside), the reverse with a calligraphic panel comprising 8 ll. of black nasta‘liq, within cream and blue minor borders and wide red margins
Painting: 8 ½ x 5.2/4 in. (21.5 x 14.5 cm.)
Folio: 11 ½ x 8 ½ in. (29.2 x 21.6 cm.)
DECCAN, INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
Gouache with gold on paper, depicting a devotee visiting an ascetic at night, the latter seated on a tiger skin outside his shrine smoking a huqqa, with a yogini playing a vina and a dog seated in the foreground, within narrow blue border with scrolling foliate motifs, white rules and wide red margins, an inscription in black nasta‘liq in upper margin 'pir birun’ (ascetic outside), the reverse with a calligraphic panel comprising 8 ll. of black nasta‘liq, within cream and blue minor borders and wide red margins
Painting: 8 ½ x 5.2/4 in. (21.5 x 14.5 cm.)
Folio: 11 ½ x 8 ½ in. (29.2 x 21.6 cm.)
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