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拍品專文
This painting is part of a Ragamala series that was once attributed to the Pahari court of Bilaspur. However, Catherine Glynn in a new study of other illustrations from this same series has re-attributed them to the court of Chamba (C. Glynn, et al., Ragamala: Paintings from India, 2011, p.34). Another Ragamala painting from a comparable series with similar figures and strong colors is in the Rietberg Museum, attributed to Chamba circa 1700 (inv. RVI 953, op. cit., p.34, fig. 13). This painting and several others recently offered at auction are interesting in terms of provenance as they bear a stamp on the verso from the Royal Mandi Collection, where this Ragamala series was apparently rebound in 1841. Three further folios from the same series are in the Claudio Moscatelli Collection (op.cit., nos. 7, 8 and 9, pp. 52-57). Nine further paintings from the series, attributed then to Bilaspur, were sold at Sotheby's New York, 29 March 2006, lots 164-173. More recently six paintings were sold in the Garden of Epics sale, Christie's South Kensington, 10 June 2013, lots 2-7.