Lot Essay
For another folio from the same series, see lot 100.
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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 a young guru in a marble pavilion worshipped by other male figures; the reverse with a guru seated on a platform in the middle of a lake, other figures and fishermen on the shore, each illustration identified in Gurmukhi at top, with yellow and orange borders, mounted
8¼ x 7¾in. (20.9 x 19.5cm.) visible
PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Possibly from a Janamsakhi manuscript, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a young guru in a marble pavilion worshipped by other male figures; the reverse with a guru seated on a platform in the middle of a lake, other figures and fishermen on the shore, each illustration identified in Gurmukhi at top, with yellow and orange borders, mounted
8¼ x 7¾in. (20.9 x 19.5cm.) visible
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