Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
An illustration to a Ragamala series: Madhumadhavi Ragini, India, Rajasthan, Sirohi, circa 1680
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October 27, 03:41 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold on paper, black rules, with red margins, the upper margin inscribed and numbered in black devanagari script ''madhumadhavi 18'', with later inscriptions in pencil on the reverse
painting: 20.3 by 14.6cm; leaf: 23.3 by 17.8cm.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1978.
Francesca Galloway, London, 2018.
Francesca Galloway, London, 2018.
T. Falk et al, Indian Painting: Mughal and Rajput and a Sultanate manuscript, exhibition catalogue, Colnaghi, London, 1978, no.64, illus. p.107.
A closely comparable illustration of Madhumadhavi Ragini from Sirohi, dated to the late 17th century, from the Chhatrapati Shivaji Museum in Museum (acc.no.58.4) is illustrated in Ebeling 1973, no. 220, p.250. For other similarly dated ragamala illustrations from Sirohi, see ibid., no. 196, p.243 and no. 293, p.270. A further painting depicting Kaffi Ragini of Panchama Raga is illustrated in C. Glynn, R. Skelton, A.L. Dallapiccola, Ragamala: Paintings from India from the Claudio Moscatelli Collection, Dulwich Picture Gallery, exhibition catalogue, London, 2011, cat.no.11, pp.60-1.