Illustration to the Amaru-Sataka

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Illustration to the Amaru-Sataka
gouache heightened with gold on paper, sitting on a red, green, yellow and blue striped carpet in a pavillion at night, the lady turns away holding her veil as the man caresses her shoulder, a peacock sits on the roof above, a large flowering plant blooms beside the pavillion, yellow panel above with two lines of black devanagari, panel of scrolling vine below, (creasing and flaking, lacking at edges), Malwa, 1675-80 - 7½ x 5½in. (19 x 14cm.); female musician, seated on a low chair, playing a stringed instrument, gold sprinkled borders and mount, 18th century - 18 x 10.7cm.; two portraits of nobles, one bust portrait of a Mewar noble at a window with flowered hanging, probably early 19th century, the other of Azam Shah son of Aurangzeb seated in a gold chair with parasol, 19th century - larger 22 x 14.7cm.; Madmudhavi ragini a lady taking shelter from an oncoming storm, on orange leaf, nasta'liq calligraphy on verso - 16.2 x 9.4cm.; and two others, showing an elephant fight and a court scene, all in 17th century style, all mounted, all 20th century - largest 42 x 24cm.
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Lot Essay

For other illustrations to a Malwa Amaru-Sataka, probably the same manuscript, see: Bulletin of the Prince of Wales Museum of West India, Bombay 1953, No.2 1951-2, pp.1-63, pls I-V.
An earlier drawing of the female musician with near-identical composition was sold at Maggs Brothers in 1987 (Maggs Bulletin No.41, July 1987, no.4).

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