拍品专文
For a discussion on devotee's icons from Tanjore, see Barbara Rossi, From the Ocean of Painting, India's Popular Paintings, 1589 to the Present, Oxford, 1998, pp.82-89.
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TANJORE, SOUTH INDIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
细节
THE CHILD KRISHNA AS THE BUTTER THIEF
TANJORE, SOUTH INDIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments and gold leaf on paper, mounted on wood, the devotee's icon depicting Krishna as a youth with the butter jar, seated on a square throne and attended by a female worshipper, possibly his foster mother Yashoda, a jewelled arch above them, some flaking, in gilt wood frame
27 x 20¼in. (68.5 x 51.5cm.)
TANJORE, SOUTH INDIA, LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments and gold leaf on paper, mounted on wood, the devotee's icon depicting Krishna as a youth with the butter jar, seated on a square throne and attended by a female worshipper, possibly his foster mother Yashoda, a jewelled arch above them, some flaking, in gilt wood frame
27 x 20¼in. (68.5 x 51.5cm.)