拍品專文
The subject of the female musician playing to an adoring fawn likely relates to the musical mode Todi Ragini as a representation of love.
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PROVINCIAL MUGHAL, 18TH CENTURY
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Lady Playing a Veena
Provincial Mughal, 18th Century
Finely painted depicting a bejeweled and henna-tattooed musician with flowing black hair wrapped in a pleated sari, supporting her instrument on her shoulder and with fawn beside her, painted with gold and blue borders of scrolling foliage on a gold flecked album leaf, inscribed and numbered in gold cartouche in Nastaliq; the reverse with Nastaliq calligraphy in gold against a rectangular salmon colored ground with blue and dark green borders
Folio: 17 5/8 x 12 in. (44.5 x 30.5 cm.)
Provincial Mughal, 18th Century
Finely painted depicting a bejeweled and henna-tattooed musician with flowing black hair wrapped in a pleated sari, supporting her instrument on her shoulder and with fawn beside her, painted with gold and blue borders of scrolling foliage on a gold flecked album leaf, inscribed and numbered in gold cartouche in Nastaliq; the reverse with Nastaliq calligraphy in gold against a rectangular salmon colored ground with blue and dark green borders
Folio: 17 5/8 x 12 in. (44.5 x 30.5 cm.)