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Lot Essay
A very similar composition is found in Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library, London, 1981, no.426XXVII, p. 513.
Details
SUGRAI RAGINI
HYDERABAD, CIRCA 1760
An illustration from a Ragamala series, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a prince and his mistress dressed in gold and orange, walk along a poppy-lined terrace towards a bed being prepared by a handmaiden in a white pavilion, green grass and trees beyond, laid down on board, small hole, mounted, framed and glazed
9¼ x 5½in. (23.4 x 14.8cm.)
HYDERABAD, CIRCA 1760
An illustration from a Ragamala series, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a prince and his mistress dressed in gold and orange, walk along a poppy-lined terrace towards a bed being prepared by a handmaiden in a white pavilion, green grass and trees beyond, laid down on board, small hole, mounted, framed and glazed
9¼ x 5½in. (23.4 x 14.8cm.)
Provenance
The Property of a Lady, Christie's London, 5 May 1977, lot 187
Literature
Cf. Edwin Binney 3rd, Mughal and Deccani Catalogue, Portland, 1973, No. 159, p. 178
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