AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAKUBHA RAGINI OF MEGHA RAGHA

HYDERABAD, DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAKUBHA RAGINI OF MEGHA RAGHA
HYDERABAD, DECCAN, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a lady in a landscape near a riverside carrying floral garlands and surrounded with peacocks, the reverse with a line of black nasta'liq script
Painting 9 3/8 x 5 ¾in. (23.8 x 14.6cm.); folio 12 ¼ x 7 7/8 in. (30.7 x 20cm.)

Provenance

From a European Private Collection; sold at Christie's, London, 19 October 1993, lot 7 (part)

Literature

C. Glynn, R. Skelton, A. L. Dallapiccola, Ragamala, Paintings from India from the Claudio Moscatelli Collection, London, 2011, cat. 21, pp. 80-81

Exhibited

Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 25 January 2012 - 27 May 2012
Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, 22 October 2011 - 8 January 2012

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Lot Essay

The name Kakubha implies a summit, splendour or beauty, but also the garlands of champaka flowers that hang from this Ragini’s hands. She is shown as a heroine deserted by her lover, who wanders dejectedly in an open landscape beneath monsoon clouds. For other folios from the same series, and further discussion, please see the two preceding lots.

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