AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: GUNAKALI RAGINI

Fair and stable overall condition with some abrasions to red folio border. Four pronounced horizontal crease lines running through the top and lower parts of the image, clearly visible in catalog illustration. With slight accompanying abrasions to pigment. Exhibited in a temporary frame.
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Ragachitras constitute a popular genre within the corpus of Indian Court painting. These are essentially representations of musical modes following certain iconographic conventions formulated in medieval times.

Here we see a nayika (heroine) seated under the awning of a white palace thinking of her absent love, arranging two flowering plants in a pair of matching vessels while musicians play.