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

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA
PURANA SERIES
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, MEWAR, CIRCA 1650
Opaque watercolor on paper, heightened with gold
9¬ x 7 in. (24.5 x 17.8 cm.); folio 10¿ x 7√ in. (25.6 x 19.9 cm.)
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 1989, lot 105

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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE MAHABHARATA:
DRAUPADI WATCHING A DANCE PERFORMANCE
INDIA, ISARDA, CIRCA 1630
Opaque watercolor on paper, heightened with gold
Image 4Ω x 6¡ in. (11.5 x 16.3 cm.); folio 6¿ x 7Ω in. (15.5 x 19.1 cm.)
$3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE
Acquired in New York before 1969
Christie’s New York, 16 September 2009, lot 787
EXHIBITED
On loan to Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York,
from 1969-2009 (L69.26.1)
New Delhi, Visual Art Gallery, “Indian Miniatures
from Mughal to Rajput,” 1972

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