A palm leaf illustration from the Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati

EASTERN INDIA, ORISSA, 18TH CENTURY

Details

A palm leaf illustration from the Romance of Chandrabhanu and Lavanyavati
Eastern India, Orissa, 18th century
Each side divided by architectural elements into two scenes, each scene depicting a lady at her toilette with attendants
Pen and ink on palm leaf
1¾ x 16¼ in. (4.4 x 41.3 cm.)

Provenance

George P. Bickford Collection, acquired by 1966
Private collection, New York, by inheritance

Literature

S. Czuma, Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, 1975, cat. no. 44

Exhibited

Miniatures and Small Sculptures from India, The University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1966, cat. no. 72
Indian Art from the George P. Bickford Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, 14 January - 16 February 1975; University Art Museum, The University of Texas in Austin, 20 March - 25 April 1975; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois in Champaign, 5 October - 9 November 1975; Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 February - 7 March 1976; University Gallery, University of Florida in Gainesville, 28 March - 3 May 1976; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 28 May - 30 July 1976; University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, 5 October - 28 November 1976; University of Michigan Museum of Art at Ann Arbor, 2 January - 13 February 1977

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Lot Essay

This painting is from an eighteenth-century Oriya poem written by Upendra Bhanja. For another from the same manuscript, in the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, see B.N. Goswamy and C. Smith, Domains of Wonder, 2005, pp. 44-45, cat. no. 9.

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