Illustration to the Gita Govinda

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Illustration to the Gita Govinda
gouache heightened with gold on paper, Krishna and Radha each sit in a bower hung with garlands by a river, while her maid servant acts as go-between, from a tree a figure shoots a lotus flower arrow toward Krishna, yellow panel with lines of red and black devanagari above, yellow margin with black rules, red leaf, (very light spotting and rubbing), Mewar, circa 1714 - 25.2 x 43.1cm.
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Lot Essay

For other leaves from the same series see: Poster, A.: Realms of Heroism, Brooklyn 1994, pp.212-14 and Bautze, J.: Lotosmund und Lowenritt, Stuttgart 1991, pp.193-6.
See also Christie's King Street Rooms, 14 October 1997, lots 6 and 7.

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