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TWO ILLUSTRATIONS TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: BILAWAL RAGINI, PATMANJARI RAGINI
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 USD
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Description
- TWO ILLUSTRATIONS TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: BILAWAL RAGINI, PATMANJARI RAGINI
- Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper
- image: 9 1/8 by 6 in. (23.2 by 15.9 cm)
- folio: 10 3/8 by 7 3/8 in. (26.3 by 18.7 cm) and slightly smaller, [2], unframed, 1 illustrated
Catalogue Note
A nayika adjusting her jewelry being shown a mirror by her sakhi (confidant). Two large vases of flowering plants with red blossoms.
The second illustration pictures a forlorn nayika being consoled by her sakhi.
The two folios from the 🍰same Malwa ragamala series with registers depic🤡ting a lavish palace in white, containing rectangular windows and niches in a palate of primary and secondary colors of red yellow green and blue flattened into abstract pattern.