AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BOOK OF DREAMS

UDAIPUR, MEWAR, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700-1725

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BOOK OF DREAMS
UDAIPUR, MEWAR, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700-1725
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a dark-skinned yogini seats in a columned pavilion, leaning against a striped bolster, a plantain tree and an evergreen to the left, a yellow cartouche with two lines of devanagari text above, with yellow and red borders, minor rubbing, two small holes, otherwise in very good condition, mounted, glazed and framed
10 1/8 x 8½in. (25.6 x 21.5cm.)

Provenance

Bonham's, 6 October 2008, lot 391
Private UK Collection
Kasmin Limited, New Bond Street

Lot Essay

Another folio from a Book of Dreams, depicting Chandra, the Moon God, is very probably from the same series as the present example (https://collections.lacma.org/node/248100). It is attributed to Udaipur circa 1700-1725.

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