INDIA, KISHANGARH, CIRCA 1735

Details

A Woman Holding a European Vase Filled with Flowers
India, Kishangarh, circa 1735
Depicted in profile, her lotus-shaped eyes delicately tinged with red, a few curling strands escaping from her neatly braided hair covered by a transparent red odhini with silver motifs, wearing pearl, ruby and emerald jewelry, her hennaed hands carrying a blue-and-white vase filled with flowers
Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold, on paper
12½ x 9¼ in. (31.8 x 23.5 cm.), excluding borders

Lot Essay

Compare with an example of a woman playing a tanpura with similar depiction of the facial features, jewelry and treatment of the gauzy odhini; see A. Topsfield and M.C. Beach, Indian Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Howard Hodgkin, 1991, p. 96, cat. no. 38.

More from Indian & Southeast Asian Art

View All