Lot Essay
All paintings have an inscription on the reverse stating that they were entered into the bedding store at the Jodhpur Palace.
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Five illustrations to a manuscript on the nature of lovers, a Nayika- Nayaka
gouache heightened with gold on paper, showing: Parakiya, a lady watching a flood from her balcony; Ganika Abhisarika, a lady surrounded by buzzing flies; Madhya Vasaksajja, a lady approaching her bed chamber; Viprhabsha, a lady and maidservants at a Shiva shrine; Viraha Pravasa Varnam, two ladies talking in a pavillion, each with yellow panel above filled with lines of black and red devanagari, blue border with gold foliate pattern, on red leaf, each numbered, each mounted, (light wear and flaking, some rubbing to borders), Jodhpur, 19th century - 36 x 25cm.
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gouache heightened with gold on paper, showing: Parakiya, a lady watching a flood from her balcony; Ganika Abhisarika, a lady surrounded by buzzing flies; Madhya Vasaksajja, a lady approaching her bed chamber; Viprhabsha, a lady and maidservants at a Shiva shrine; Viraha Pravasa Varnam, two ladies talking in a pavillion, each with yellow panel above filled with lines of black and red devanagari, blue border with gold foliate pattern, on red leaf, each numbered, each mounted, (light wear and flaking, some rubbing to borders), Jodhpur, 19th century - 36 x 25cm.
See illustration for one (5)