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INDIA, JAIPUR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Details
A painting of ladies bathing near Shaiva shrines
India, Jaipur, early 19th century
Depicting several women frolicking in the silver lotus-filled water, their discarded clothes under a tree which also shelters a seated woman who is having her hair combed, with two lingam-yonis on platforms at left and a red boat behind the tree, a grassy bank with coupled birds in the foreground and an early morning sky with golden sunlight emerging on the horizon the verso with inscriptions
Opaque pigments, gold and silver on paper
11¾ x 7 5/8 in. (30 x 19.3 cm.), image
14 x 9½ in. (35.5 x 24 cm.), folio
India, Jaipur, early 19th century
Depicting several women frolicking in the silver lotus-filled water, their discarded clothes under a tree which also shelters a seated woman who is having her hair combed, with two lingam-yonis on platforms at left and a red boat behind the tree, a grassy bank with coupled birds in the foreground and an early morning sky with golden sunlight emerging on the horizon the verso with inscriptions
Opaque pigments, gold and silver on paper
11¾ x 7 5/8 in. (30 x 19.3 cm.), image
14 x 9½ in. (35.5 x 24 cm.), folio
Provenance
Private collection, London, acquired in 2007