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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF BARONESS EVA BESSENYEY
(LOTS 601-640 AND LOTS 719-724)

719
TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A
RAGALAMALA SERIES: RAMKALI RAGINI
AND VASANT RAGINI
CENTRAL INDIA, MALWA
16TH-17TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor on paper
Image 9º x 6¿ in. (23.5 x 15.4 cm.)
folio 11 x 7Ω in. (27.8 x 18.9 cm.)
Image 8æ x 6º in. (22.3 x 15.9 cm.)
folio 10¬ x 7¡ in. (27 x 18.8 cm.) (2)
$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE
First painting:
Sotheby’s Parke-Bernet, 28 February 1974, lot 127
Second painting:
Semi Liquidation of Heeramaneck Galleries;
O’Reilly’s Plaza Art Gallery, Inc., New York, 4 April
1972, no. 107

720
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE KAVIPRIYA
AND AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A
RASIKAPRIYA SERIES
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, MEWAR, CIRCA 1650
AND CENTRAL INDIA, MALWA
MID-17TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor on paper, the frst heightened
with gold
Image 6¿ x 6 in. (15.6 x 15.2 cm.)
folio 7√ x 6¡ in. (20 x 16.2 cm.)
Image 7¡ x 7 in. (18.7 x 17.8 cm.)
folio 9 x 7æ in. (19.7 x 22.9 cm.) (2)
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE
First painting:
The Doris Weiner Collection; Christie’s New York,
20 March 2012, lot 252
Second painting:
The Carter Burden Collection of Indian Paintings;
Sotheby’s New York, 27 March 1991, lot 4

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