Classical Indian paintings from a Distinguished New York Prᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚivate Collection
An Illustration to the Rasikapriya of Keshav Das, By Rukn al-din (active 1650 - 1697), Rajasthan / Bikaner, circa 1686
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March 20, 05:22 PM GMT
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15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Classical Indian paintings from a Distinguishe💜d New Yorဣk Private Collection
Waterbased pigments with gold on paper
Iꦦnner goꦕld and thin red outer borders with black and white ruled lines.
Veꦦrso: black ink inscription in devanagari script and various inventory numbers:
Rasikapriya of Ruknuddin (tr🧜ans.) Sam 1743 (1686 a.d.) and (at right) pra. 3
(chapter 3)
Verso the purple in🌌k stamp of the Collection of H. H. the Maharaja of Bikaner
(inked over).
5⅜ by 7⅝ in., 13.8 by 19.5 cm
Krishna speaks with a sakhi (confidante) as Radha is instructed by a four-armed sage as she gestures and points to a text of the Puranas placed between the෴m.
Another folio from the same series, previously in the Sri Motichand Khajanchi and later in the Ralph and Catherine Glynn Benkaim collections, and currently in the collection of the National Museum of Asian Art / Smithsonian (Accession no: S2018.1.43) is inscribed in devanagari script (verso) "rukdin rosam. 1743" ie by Ruknuddin 1686 CE. Another folio with a nearly identical back inscription to the present lot, written in the same hand is in the Kronos Collection (promised gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art NY 2015) object number: SL.21.2016.1.15. which also mentions the artist Isa who was probably a collaborator with Rukn al-Din. It is illustrated by Terence McInerney, Divine Pleasures: Painting from India's Rajput Courts—The Kronos Collections, New York, 2016, cat. no. 23.
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