拍品 201
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Maharana Sangram Singh II Performing Puja before a Shiva Lingam

估價
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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描述

  • Maharana Sangram Singh II Performing Puja before a Shiva Lingam
  • Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
  • image 9 1/4 by 6 5/8 in. (23.2 by 16.8 cm)
  • folio 9 3/4 by 7 1/8 in. (24.8 by 18.1 cm) unframed
The nimbated Maharana Sangram Singh II (r. 1710-34) is shown offering puja at a Shiva Linga shrine beneath a flowering banyan tree.

來源

Formerly Collection of Gerard Labre, France, acquired early 1970's

Condition

Fairly good overall condition. Light creases and abrasion to pigment in the foreground, especially the white. Slight losses to the Maharana's halo and to the background adjacent to the attendant's fly wisk. Creases and abrasions to pigment in the area of the sky. Very light stain in white foreground lower right. This lot is exhibited in a temporary frame.
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拍品資料及來源

For another image of the ruler praying at a Shiva shrine with his young son, see, A. Topsfield, Paintings from Rajasthan, Melbourne, 1980, cat 67, p. 66.