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PROBABLY AMBER, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1720
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TWO AVATARS OF VISHNU
PROBABLY AMBER, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1720
Probably from a dashavatara or 'ten avatars' series, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, one painting depicting Vishnu as Kalki leading a white horse, with a lake with lotuses in the foreground ; the other painting depicting Vishnu as Parashurama wielding an axe in combat with the thousand-armed king Kartavirya, each folio with 3ll. of devanagari text in black with the opening word in red set in a yellow rectangular cartouche, the reverse of each with 4ll. of devanagari, the second with a sketch of the scene, extended margins restored
Painting 10¼ x 7¼in. (25.6 x 18.4cm.); folio 13¼ x 9½in. (33.4 x 24cm.)
PROBABLY AMBER, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1720
Probably from a dashavatara or 'ten avatars' series, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, one painting depicting Vishnu as Kalki leading a white horse, with a lake with lotuses in the foreground ; the other painting depicting Vishnu as Parashurama wielding an axe in combat with the thousand-armed king Kartavirya, each folio with 3ll. of devanagari text in black with the opening word in red set in a yellow rectangular cartouche, the reverse of each with 4ll. of devanagari, the second with a sketch of the scene, extended margins restored
Painting 10¼ x 7¼in. (25.6 x 18.4cm.); folio 13¼ x 9½in. (33.4 x 24cm.)
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