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KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830
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A PAINTING FROM A DASAVATARA SERIES: MATSYA AVATARA
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, blue-skinned Vishnu emerging from his fish avatar and holding a sutra page, a golden mace, a conch shell, a ring and with a lotus flower in his yellow dhoti, attacking in the water a demon in his conch-shell, bearing a golden mace and a shield, within a black, green and white scroll frame, with pink borders
Painting 5 x 8in. (12.8 x 20.4cm.); page 6 7/8 x 9¾ in. (17.3 x 25cm.)
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1830
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, blue-skinned Vishnu emerging from his fish avatar and holding a sutra page, a golden mace, a conch shell, a ring and with a lotus flower in his yellow dhoti, attacking in the water a demon in his conch-shell, bearing a golden mace and a shield, within a black, green and white scroll frame, with pink borders
Painting 5 x 8in. (12.8 x 20.4cm.); page 6 7/8 x 9¾ in. (17.3 x 25cm.)
Provenance
Acquired before 1991.
Brought to you by
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse