Lot 28
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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DHANASRI RAGINI
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DHANASRI RAGINI

SUB-IMPERIAL MUGHAL SCHOOL, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1690

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DHANASRI RAGINI
SUB-IMPERIAL MUGHAL SCHOOL, RAJASTHAN, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1690
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, she sits pensively under a tree on a rectangular carpet, her hand to her chin, parrots and a squirrel on a banana tree before her, flowering shrubs and trees in a sparse hilly landscape around, the sun shines, within gold, blue and red rules, four lines of devanagari text in red and black above, identification inscription on reverse
10¼ x 8 5/8in. (26 x 22cm.)
Provenance
Acquired before 1991.

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A translation of the text on reverse is offered by Ordhendra Coomar Gangoly: Seated under the Vakula tree, the lady was red [with grief]. She is weeping and heaving deep sighs. Her cloth and her bodice are coloured red. It is difficult to find a lady of such slim grace. She has no companion with her. By the heat of separation her body withers.“ The verses are ascribed to the poet Paida.

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