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THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: NANDANA PUTRA, MARWA PUTRA, ABHIRI RAGINI
THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: NANDANA PUTRA, MARWA PUTRA, ABHIRI RAGINI
THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: NANDANA PUTRA, MARWA PUTRA, ABHIRI RAGINI
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THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: NANDANA PUTRA, MARWA PUTRA, ABHIRI RAGINI

POSSIBLY KURNOOL, DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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THREE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: NANDANA PUTRA, MARWA PUTRA, ABHIRI RAGINI
POSSIBLY KURNOOL, DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a young prince playing with cats; a standing prince holding a spear; a lady collecting flower heads in a garden, each with identification in black nasta'liq script above
Painting 11 ½ x 6 ¾in. (30 x 17.2cm.); folio 15 ¼ x 8 ¾in. (38.7 x 22.4cm.) each
Provenance
Christie's, London, 11 October 1979, lot 179.
with Mark Zebrowski.
with Sven Gahlin.
Literature
Edwin Binney 3rd

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Another folio from this Ragamala series was formerly in the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection (Edwin Binney 3rd, Indian Miniature Painting from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd: The Mughal and Deccani Schools with some related Sultanate material, Portland, 1973, no.165, p.181). That was formerly in the collection of Mildred and W.G. Archer and was catalogued as Deccani sub-style, mid-18th century.

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