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INDIA, MEWAR, MID-18TH CENTURY
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A folio from the Bhagavad Gita
India, Mewar, mid-18th century
Depicting the blue-skinned god twice as a boy, once seated in a pavilion at right, and the other receiving cream from his mother who churns butter at left, with a group of conversing women seated at lower left and a man playing finger cymbals at lower right, all in the courtyard of a marble palace with flowering trees in the background, an inscription in a yellow field at top and with red borders
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
14 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (36.4 x 25.7 cm.)
India, Mewar, mid-18th century
Depicting the blue-skinned god twice as a boy, once seated in a pavilion at right, and the other receiving cream from his mother who churns butter at left, with a group of conversing women seated at lower left and a man playing finger cymbals at lower right, all in the courtyard of a marble palace with flowering trees in the background, an inscription in a yellow field at top and with red borders
Opaque pigments and gold on wasli
14 3/8 x 10 1/8 in. (36.4 x 25.7 cm.)
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