A DOUBLE-SIDED ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A SIKH MANUSCRIPT
A DOUBLE-SIDED ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A SIKH MANUSCRIPT
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A DOUBLE-SIDED ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A SIKH MANUSCRIPT

PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A DOUBLE-SIDED ILLUSTRATED FOLIO FROM A SIKH MANUSCRIPT
PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Possibly from a Janamsakhi manuscript, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting Guru Nanak with Mardana at a Shiva shrine; the reverse with Guru Nanak lying down in front of an empty marble shrine, each scene identified in Gurmukhi at top, with orange and yellow borders, mounted
9 x 9 1/8in. (22.8 x 23.3cm.)
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Lot Essay

For another folio from the same series, see lot 101.

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