A Durga Kund, Rajasthan with figures bathing, preparing for worship and chasing away monkeys

Details

Rajastan School, 19th century
A Durga Kund, Rajasthan with figures bathing, preparing for worship and chasing away monkeys
inscribed in Hindi (on the reverse)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour and heightened with gold and perforated with holes, with painted tissue on the reverse
10¾ x 16¼in. (27.5 x 41cm.)

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Lot Essay

The present watercolour, with its perforations to let the light shine through symbolising the candles around the sacred pool of the god Durgar, is a remarkably rare example of the Rajasthan painting in the first half of the 19th century. As far as we are aware there are no similar examples in the main public collections of Company School and Indian painting.

We are grateful to Jerry Losty of the India Office Library for his help in preparing this catalogue entry.

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