A painting from the Mahabharata
India, Jaipur, circa 1800
A donkey-headed king seated on a golden throne and in conversation with two princes who have been escorted to him, with a number of animal-headed attendants standing to the right and seated in the foreground, all in an open courtyard before a silver pavilion and within golden walls, a green hilly landscape and a gold and blue sky in the distance
Opaque pigments and gold on paper
9 3/8 x 7 1/8 in. (23.8 x 18.2 cm.), image
11 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (30.3 x 24.5 cm.), folio
來源
Private collection, London, acquired at Bonham's London, 19 April 2007, lot 303
拍品專文
Compare with a painting sold at Christie's London, 24 April 1990, lot 14.