A double-sided album page: a yogi seated in a landscape; a nobleman seated on a terrace, Deccan, second half 18th Century

Estimate

5,000 - 7,000 GBP

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Description

gouache on paper

gouache heightened with gold on paper, laid down with orange and blue borders, recto borders decorated with gold floral scrolls, cartouches above and below in nasta'liq script

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 9 December 1980, lot 45

Catalogue Note

The illustration depicting the yogi may be a depiction of a Ragamala. Several include the iconography of a lone ascetic, including Bangal, Gaundmalar and Devgandhar raginis. The reverse shows a nobleman kneeling on a terrace, a sitar to his side