GAURI RAGINI

Lot 164
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ID 1306541
Lot 164 | GAURI RAGINI
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£ 8 000 – 12 000
GAURI RAGINI
MALWA, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1650
An illustration to a Ragamala series, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, yellow panels above and below, set within black rules and red margins, the verso with 4ll. black devanagari and Datia State Collection stamp, mounted, framed and glazed
Painting 6 ½ x 5 ¼in. (16.5 x 13.3cm.); folio 8 3/8 x 5 7/8in. (21.2 x 14.9cm.)




Provenance

Datia royal collection (per stamp on verso),
Collection of Nasli M. Heeramaneck (d.1971)
The Estate of Dr. Claus Virch (d.2012), sold Sotheby's, New York, 17 March 2015, lot 1124



Literature

Alice Heeramaneck, Masterpieces of Indian Painting formerly in the Nasli M. Heeramaneck Collections, Geneva, 1984, p.41, pl.24



Engraved

On the verso in the Hindi verse, gauda ragini meghamallar ki 'Gauri Ragini of Meghamallar'
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