Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
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October 27, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, with narrow dark blue and gold borders, wide pink-speckled margins, the flyleaf inscribed with the numerals ''35'' in devanagari script
painting: 23.7 by 31.6cm; leaf: 30.4 by 38.4cm.
This splendid painting has been attributed to a master artist from the first generation of the family workshop of Manaku and Nainsukh. Some of the most well-known series of paintings and individual works produced in the Pahari region between 1770 and 1810 have been attributed to artists from this family. For a list of known works, see Beach, Fischer and Goswamy 2011, pp.689-694. Two folios from the same series as the present painting, related to the churning of the ocean, are in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (acc. no.68.7 and 68.8; Leach 1995, Vol.II, 11.94, 11.95, p.1083). Fourteen folios depicting the story of Prahlada from this Bhagavata Purana series are in the Royal Collection (RCINS 925226-925241; Hannam 2018, pp.168-185. Two further folios, also formerly in the collection of Pearl King, depicting the Vamana avatar of Vishnu and Krishna in combat with Rukma, Rukmani’s brother, sold at Bonhams London, 21 April 2015, lots 185-6.