The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
The Edith & Stuart Cary Welch Collection
Todi Ragini: illustration to a Ragamala series, style associated with 'the Kota Master C', India, Rajasthan, Kota, circa 1720
Auction Closed
October 25, 12:38 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
gouache and gold on paper, yellow text panel at top with Hindi number '15' and inscribed in Devanagari 'todi ragini', narrow inner gold border, wide red outer border, reverse blank
miniature: 18.6 by 11.4cm. (7⅝by 4½in.)
including borders: 26.3 by 16.5cm. (10⅜by 6½in.)
Acquired by Cary Welch by 1969
N. Patnaik, A Second Paradise: Indian Courtly Life 1590-1947, New York, 1985, no.29, p.93
M. Fraser, Selected Works from the Stuart Cary Welch Collection of Indian and Islamic Art, London, 2015, cat.32, pp.114-5
On loan at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1969 & 1983
The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Colby Museum of Art, Maine, 2020