KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820

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THE GODDESS GANGA
KANGRA, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1820
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicted seated on her mount makara and holding her attributes, within floral spandrels, in gold floral margins on blue ground, within red rules and thin borders
10 1/8 x 7 5/8in. (25.6 x 19.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

A similar painting of Ganga although slightly earlier is in the Rietberg Museum, Zurich and attributed to Kangra circa 1800 (George Boner, Eberhard Fischer, B.N. Goswamy, Sammlung Alice Boner, Geschenk an das Museum Rietberg, Zurich, 1994, cart.479, p.136).

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