A MUSICIAN WITH A RUDRA VEENA
A MUSICIAN WITH A RUDRA VEENA
A MUSICIAN WITH A RUDRA VEENA
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A MUSICIAN WITH A RUDRA VEENA

PROBABLY AWADH, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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A MUSICIAN WITH A RUDRA VEENA
PROBABLY AWADH, INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Pencil and opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, within blue and pink illuminated borders between gold and polychrome rules, cream margins decorated with gold illuminated lattice, inscribed with Eastern Arabic numeral 20 in the top left corner, the reverse with 7ll. black naskh reserved against gold clouds, in illuminated blue border, with 4ll. black nasta'liq above and below on gold-speckled paper, in illuminated pink borders, the cream margins decorated with floral motifs, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 2 5⁄8 x 1 7/8in. (6.7 x 4.9cm.); folio 11 7⁄8 x 7 7/8in. (30 x 20.2cm.)
Provenance
American art market, 2004
Engraved
On the reverse in nast‘aliq, verses from the Haft Band of Hasan Kashi
In naskh, Qur’an 68:39-45, in part.

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