VIBHASA RAGINI

Lot 85
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£ 6 000
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Lot 85 | VIBHASA RAGINI
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VIBHASA RAGINI

BY DALU, KOTA, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, CIRCA 1766

An illustration to a Ragamala, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, set between yellow, black and white rules with a black border with scrolling vine, red margins with 4ll. white devanagari above describing the ragini in Sanskrit and the number '36', reverse plain

Painting 8 1/4 x 5 1/8in. (21 x 13cm.); folio 14 x 10 1/4in. (35.5 x 26cm.)





Provenance

Anon sale., Sotheby's London, 22 November 1976, lot 137

Klefisch, Cologne/Marco Polo Paris, 1980



Literature

L.V. Habighorst, Blumen - Bäume -Göttergärten in indischen Miniaturen, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2011, Abb. 93, pp. 124-125

A.L. Dallapiccola and E. Isaaco, Ragamala, Galerie Marco Polo exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1977, fig. 41

A.L. Dallapiccola, et al. eds., Krishna the Divine Lover. Myth and Legend through Indian Art, Serindia, London, 1982, fig. 198

The Patron's Taste - Indian Painting and Decorative Art, Francesca Galloway Exhibition Catalogue, London 2019, no.15



Exhibited

Blumen - Bäume - Göttergärten - Indische Malerei aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Hamburg, Museum für Völkerkunde, 17 March - 27 October 2013

Der Blaue Gott in indischen Miniaturen, Koblenz, Mittelrhein Museum, 26 July-5 October 2014



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Please note this lot contains additional provenance to that in the printed catalogue and was offered at Sotheby's London, 22 November 1976, lot 137.
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