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拍品专文
In most northern ragamala systems, Malashri, as inscribed on the reverse of the folio, is represented as a lady plucking petals from a lotus flowers as she awaits her lover. The artist of our painting does not adhere to the accepted pattern for Malashri, nor is it usual for her to be seen as a wife of the Hindola Raga. Robert Skelton suggests, therefore, that the Hyderabad artists had access to an incomplete set of tracings from a north Indian ragamala and filled in the gaps with alternative subject matter (C. Glynn, R. Skelton, A. L. Dallapiccola, Ragamala, Paintings from India from the Claudio Moscatelli Collection, London, 2011, p.74).
In certain ragamalas from Hyderabad, this subject has been identified as Shyam Kalyan Ragini, which is a popular musical mode to be sung in the evening. It is however difficult to find a dhyana describing it in this form and there appears to be some confusion about the name. Kalyan is an auspicious male name and Shyama ‘black or dark’ is an epithet for the god Krishna, but the name of the ragini is sometimes rendered as Shyam (evening) Kalyan – appropriate for music to be played late in the day. For a closely related illustration also described as Shyam Kalyan in the Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection see John Seyller and Konrad Seitz, Mughal and Deccani Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 2010, no.50, p.144. For other folios from the same series, and further discussion, please see the following two lots.
In certain ragamalas from Hyderabad, this subject has been identified as Shyam Kalyan Ragini, which is a popular musical mode to be sung in the evening. It is however difficult to find a dhyana describing it in this form and there appears to be some confusion about the name. Kalyan is an auspicious male name and Shyama ‘black or dark’ is an epithet for the god Krishna, but the name of the ragini is sometimes rendered as Shyam (evening) Kalyan – appropriate for music to be played late in the day. For a closely related illustration also described as Shyam Kalyan in the Eva and Konrad Seitz Collection see John Seyller and Konrad Seitz, Mughal and Deccani Paintings, exhibition catalogue, Zurich, 2010, no.50, p.144. For other folios from the same series, and further discussion, please see the following two lots.