Lot 293
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A MINIATURE FROM THE MARKANDEYA PURANA

GULER, CIRCA 1790

Details
A MINIATURE FROM THE MARKANDEYA PURANA
GULER, CIRCA 1790
Gouache on paper, Durga riding her lion engages in fierce battle with multi-coloured demons assisted by various other deities and their vehicles including Shiva on the bull Nandi, Vishnu on Garuda and various other avatars, above Indra rides the white elephant followed by Brahma on a swan, in the foreground, Karttikeya, the son of Shiva and Parvati, a barren landscape behind them, within plain buff borders
Miniature 6½ x 10¼in. (16.4 x 25.9cm.)
Literature
Patrick Carré, Dieux, tigres et amours. Miniatures indiennes du XVe au XXe siècle, Spain, 1993, pp.110-111
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Lot Essay

This miniature probably comes from the same Markandeya Purana series as two miniatures in the Victoria and Albert Museum (W.G. Archer, Indian Painting from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, no. 61(i-ii), pl. 117, p. 164). For another miniature from the same series in this sale, please see the preceding lot.

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