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SOUTH DECCAN, POSSIBLY NIRMAL, CIRCA 1800
Details
FIVE FOLK ILLUSTRATIONS OF HINDU DEITIES AND FIGURES
SOUTH DECCAN, POSSIBLY NIRMAL, CIRCA 1800
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on thick paper, lacquered, each of circular format, depicting Krishna dancing on Sesha; a dark-skinned deity, possibly Kama, with female attendants on a bed; Kama riding a bird composed of female figures; Kama riding a horse composed of female figures; and a carousel of 12 horses, each with inscriptions in gold South Indian script and within gilt and polychrome floral borders, creasing and flaking, each individually framed, each frame with old gallery label
Each panel 9in. (22.7cm.) diam. (5)
SOUTH DECCAN, POSSIBLY NIRMAL, CIRCA 1800
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on thick paper, lacquered, each of circular format, depicting Krishna dancing on Sesha; a dark-skinned deity, possibly Kama, with female attendants on a bed; Kama riding a bird composed of female figures; Kama riding a horse composed of female figures; and a carousel of 12 horses, each with inscriptions in gold South Indian script and within gilt and polychrome floral borders, creasing and flaking, each individually framed, each frame with old gallery label
Each panel 9in. (22.7cm.) diam. (5)
Provenance
With John Mathieson & Co, Edinburgh, before 1940s