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INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, CIRCA 1740
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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA: KHAMBHAVATI RAGINI
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, CIRCA 1740
Depicting an elegantly dressed lady kneeling before the multi-headed Brahma to make her ritual offerings, Brahma acting as officiant seated on a raised golden dais stoking the fire, set inside a walled compound with a turreted building, a peacock is perched on the right-hand dome and a red and gold banner fluttering in the wind, with a yellow header containing a devanagari inscription, inside yellow ruled wide red margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8¼ x 4¾ in. (20.9 x 12 cm.), painting
12½ x 9 3/8 in. (31.7 x 23.7 cm.), folio
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI, CIRCA 1740
Depicting an elegantly dressed lady kneeling before the multi-headed Brahma to make her ritual offerings, Brahma acting as officiant seated on a raised golden dais stoking the fire, set inside a walled compound with a turreted building, a peacock is perched on the right-hand dome and a red and gold banner fluttering in the wind, with a yellow header containing a devanagari inscription, inside yellow ruled wide red margins
Opaque pigments on wasli heightened with gold
8¼ x 4¾ in. (20.9 x 12 cm.), painting
12½ x 9 3/8 in. (31.7 x 23.7 cm.), folio
Provenance
Doris Wiener Gallery, New York, late 1960s
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