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indian painting 266
LADY AT HER TOILET
266 INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI,
CIRCA 1770-1780
Borders with large silver fecks. Verso with
aniline dye stamp, “The Curious House
Regd. [?] Jaipur.7.[India].”
Opaque pigments, silver and gold on paper
12¬ x 9 in. (32 x 23 cm.)

$2,000-3,000

The facial features and large silver fecks
echo a famous Ragamala series from the
same kingdom, painted by Mia Sheikh
Fullah in 1738; see Dipak Raga from the
Doris Wiener Collection, sold at Christie’s
New York on 20 March 2012 (lot 260), for
$122,500.

267
A LADY IN A CHARIOT
INDIA, RAJASTHAN, BUNDI,
CIRCA 1780
Opaque pigments and gold on paper
6æ x 9 in. (17 x 23 cm.)

$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, Massachusetts,
since 1970s.

This folio is from a well-known and widely
dispersed series on life in the zenana.
For two others, see The British Museum
(1966,0725,0.10 and 1966,0725,0.11).

268
KRISHNA EMBRACES THE GOPIS
INDIA, MAHARASHTRA, 1760
With page numbers in the margins and
extensive text on the verso
Opaque pigments and gold on paper
5 x 12 in. (13 x 30.5 cm.), image
7¬ x 15Ω in. (19.5 x 39.3 cm.), folio

$3,000-5,000