A JAIN COSMIC WORLD DEPICTING ADHAIDVIPA
PAINTINGS FROM THE ESTATE OF CAROL SUMMERS
A JAIN COSMIC WORLD DEPICTING ADHAIDVIPA

INDIA, GUJARAT OR RAJASTHAN, 19TH CENTURY

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A JAIN COSMIC WORLD DEPICTING ADHAIDVIPA
INDIA, GUJARAT OR RAJASTHAN, 19TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor on paper
24 ¾ x 24 in. (62.9 x 61 cm.)

Lot Essay

This cosmic diagram depicts the Jain universe, divided into adhai dvipa, or two and a half continents. Compare the current work with another nineteenth-century cosmic diagram of Adhaidvipa illustrated in P. Pal, The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, Los Angeles, 1995, p. 223, no. 98, and another sold at Sotheby’s New York, 20 March 2013, lot 299.

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