UDAIPUR, MEWAR, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700-25

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AN ILLUSTRATION TO A BOOK OF DREAMS
UDAIPUR, MEWAR, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700-25
Opaque pigments on paper, the boar realistically depicted in a leafy landscape, two lines of black devanagari script on yellow ground above, in thin yellow margins within black rules, in red borders, the reverse with old sale label
10 x 8 ½in. (25.5 x 21.6cm.)

Provenance

Christie's Amsterdam, 12 October 1993, lot 34

Literature

J. Bautze, Indian Miniature Paintings c.1590-c.1850, exhibition catalogue, Amsterdam, 1987, no.23, p.61

Exhibited

Indian Miniature Paintings c.1590-c.1850, Amsterdam, 1 October-30 November 1987, no.23

Lot Essay

The Book of Dreams is a collection of Sanskrit verses, the last part of which usually mentions what is depicted in the associated painting, in this case, a boar. A folio from the same Book of Dreams in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, depicting Chandra, the Moon God (https://collections.lacma.org/node/248100). That is attributed to Udaipur circa 1700-1725. Another sold at Christie’s, South Kensington, 11 October 2013, lot 507.

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