拍品 47
47
A Pichhavai of Peacocks
A Pichhavai of Peacocks

INDIA, RAJASTHAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A Pichhavai of Peacocks
India, Rajasthan, 19th Century
Brightly painted with cavorting peahens and peacocks, six with plumes unfurled in a garden setting with flowering and fruit bearing trees and scampering monkeys, a lotus pond below with swimming fish, and with flying deities above in chariots driven by geese and mythical creatures, bordered by peacocks and floral sprays on an orange ground
109½ x 103½ in. (278 x 263 cm.)

拍品專文

See S. Welch, A Flower from Every Meadow, 1973, pl. 12, for a smaller pichhavai of peacocks and peahens from the same period. Welch maintains that birds are symbolic of Krishna cavorting with Radha and the gopis.