PROPERTY FROM A PRESTIGIOUS EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
An illustration to a Ragamala series: Karnati Ragini of Sri Raga, India, North Deccan, circa 1630-50
Auction Closed
October 23, 01:24 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, inscribed with two lines of black and red devanagari in a text panel above, one line in the upper margin, within black and yellow rules, plain margins, the reverse with numerals in black devanagari , and a line of black Persian text
painting: 27.9 by 21cm.
leaf: 33.3 by 26.7cm.
Fourteen folios from this early North Deccan ragamala series are illustrated in F. Galloway, Court, Epic, Spirit: Indian Art 15th-19th century, exhibition catalogue, London 2022, no. 13 (a-n). In a discussion on the series, J.P. Losty had suggested that the patron of this ragamala set was most likely a Rajput commander in the Mughal armies at this time, who would have been based at Burhanpur and then at Aurangabad in the Deccan (ibid., p.54).
A further folio from this series sold at Bonhams, New York, 18 September 2013, lot 125.
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