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ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: ASAVARI RAGINI AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES
MAWLA, CIRCA 1650 MALWA CIRCA 1660-1670
Opaque watercolor on paper; verso inscribed in devanagari: Asavari Opaque watercolor on paper.
Malkos ki. 28; “Ragini Asavari of Malkauns, page no. 28”. Image: 7 1/4 x 5 7/8 in. (18.7 x 13 cm);
Folio: 8 5/8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.5 x 15.7 cm) Folio: 8 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (21.8 x 15.7 cm)

$3,000 - 5,000 $4,000 - 6,000
“Asavari is longing for her husband and climbs the Malay mountains. Compare to another page from a closely related unidentified set in
All the snakes desert their sandal trees and writhe and coil their the Brooklyn Museum of Art published in Poster, Realms of Heroism,
bodies.” Brooklyn, 1994, p.189, no.144; and Sotheby’s, New York, 17 March
2015, lot 1126.
For other Malwa Asavari see Binney, Rajput Miniatures, Portland, 1968,
cat. 45, p.60; Dallapiccola & Isacco, Ragamala, Paris, 1977, p.43; and Provenance
Pal, Ragamala Paintings, Boston, 1967, p.15. Other pages from this Tasvir Khan, Datia
famous early series can be found in Del Bonta, Divine Visions, Worldly Sotheby’s, New York, June 17, 1993, no. 399
Lovers, 2007, no.18; Ebeling, Ragamala Paintings, p.39, C7; and Bonhams, New York, September 14, 2015, lot 99
Christie’s, New York, 20 March 2012, lots 272-5.

Provenance
Paul. F. Walter Collection, New York, acquired in 1984
E W Asian Art, Pasadena, 2006

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