Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
Arts of the Islamic World & India including Fine Rugs and Carpets
An illustration from a ragamala series: Bhairava Raga, India, North Deccan, possibly Aurangabad, circa 1670-80
Auction Closed
March 30, 12:47 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache heightened with gold and silver on paper, text panel above comprising 3 lines of Sanskrit verse in black devanagari script, within gold and polychrome rules, with red margins, numbered '4' at upper left and lower right corners
painting: 30.7 by 17.9cm.
leaf: 37.6 by 24.6cm.
Ex-collection Françoise and Claude Bourelier, Paris.
Artcurial, Paris, 4 November 2014, lot 197.
Artcurial, Paris, 4 November 2014, lot 197.
Two paintings from the same ragamala series depicting Vibhasa and Gaudi Ragini are illustrated in Seyller and Seitz, 2010, no. 39, 40, pp. 120-123. There is a list of other known pages from this widely dispersed series under footnote 2, p.122. For further folios which had been offered for sale at auction, see Sotheby’s, New York, 22 March 2002, lot 16 (from the Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck collection); 26 March 2003, lot 116; 22 March 2007, lots 167-168.