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THREE ILLUSTRATIONS TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DIPAK RAGA, RAMKALI RAGINI AND PATMANJARI RAGINI

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THREE ILLUSTRATIONS TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DIPAK RAGA, RAMKALI RAGINI AND PATMANJARI RAGINI

AMBER, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700

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THREE ILLUSTRATIONS TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: DIPAK RAGA, RAMKALI RAGINI AND PATMANJARI RAGINI
AMBER, RAJASTHAN, CIRCA 1700
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the first depicting a nobleman and his consort seated on a terrace listening to musicians, the second with a lady seated on a high yellow stool facing away from her lover, the third with a dejected looking lady being offered a garland of flowers by a female attendant, each with 3ll. of devanagari script in yellow text panel above, within narrow gold borders and buff margins with single gold flowering plants
Largest painting 10 3/8 x 6 1/8in. (26.5 x 15.5cm.); folio 13 ¾ x 9 7/8in. (35 x 25cm.)

Provenance

Formerly in the Collection of Dr. Joachim Bautze, Berlin, 1992

Literature

Sumahendra, Ragamala Paintings of Rajasthan, Jaipur. 1987, Plate II (Dipak Raga)
L. Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Koblenz, 2011, fig.33, p.57 (Patmanjari Ragini)

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Lot Essay

These ragamala illustrations, painted in the Amber tradition, are inscribed with verses by the poet Paida and dated to circa 1700. Other illustrations from this series are illustrated in Ebeling, 1973, C13, p.51; C27, p.79; no.71, p.186. There are also examples in the Lucknow Museum and the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly Prince of Wales Museum) in Mumbai. A stylistically related illustration from another Amber ragamala series, with very similar floral buff borders, is illustrated in Poster, 1994, p.142, cat.no.102.

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