TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS DEPICTING THE LIFE OF VISHNU
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TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS DEPICTING THE LIFE OF VISHNU

PROBABLY RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 17TH CENTURY

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TWO ILLUSTRATED FOLIOS DEPICTING THE LIFE OF VISHNU
PROBABLY RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 17TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, each with a large illustration bordered to the left with 10ll. of black prakrit script, depicting Vishnu reclining on Sheshanaga on red ground, and Vishnu reclining on a bed under a canopy on green ground, with marginal inscriptions, paginated in the lower right hand side corner, the reverse with 10ll. of prakrit text, some words picked out in red, between red-ruled yellow borders, each individually mounted, framed and glazed
Each painting 4 7/8 x 3¾in. (12.3 x 9.7cm.); folio 5 1/8 x 8¼in. (13 x 21cm.) approx. (2)
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