ID 828722 
Lot 85  | VIBHASA RAGINI
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000 
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
Sale room notice
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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