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651
TWO DOUBLE-SIDED FOLIOS FROM A KALPA
SUTRA MANUSCRIPT
GUJARAT, MID-15TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; each folio with an
illustrated panel on both sides in gold, blue, turquoise, red,
pink, and white; with Prakrit text in Jain Nagari script.
4 3/8 x 10 1/4 in. (11.2 x 26.1 cm), each folio
$1,500 - 2,500

Four leaves, possibly from the same manuscript, were sold
at Bonhams, New York, 18 March 2013, lot 66. Another
with a similar arrangement of a celestial assembly hall was
sold at Bonhams, London, 10 April 2008, lot 75. Also see
Pal, The Classical Tradition in Rajput Painting, New York,
1978, p.48, no.1.

Provenance
Collection of Milo Cleveland Beach

652
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A BHAGAVATA PURANA
SERIES:
THE GOPIS SEEKING KRISHNA
GUJARAT, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Opaque watercolor and ink on paper.
7 1/4 x 12 in. (18.4 x 30.5 cm)
$2,000 - 3,000

With their hands raised in deference, eight gopis search
for Krishna throughout a colorful, forested landscape. The
upper portion is dedicated to the painting’s narrative, with
beautifully calligraphed devanagari script. This charming,
naïve painting style, from Gujarat in the early 17th
century, employed loose horizontal contrasting bands
of color and emphasized more naturalism than earlier
Jain manuscripts from the region. Other pages from this
series can be observed in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New York (1974.222) and the Fralin Museum of Art,
University of Virginia (1997.9; Ehnbom, Realms of Earth
and Sky, Charlottesville, 2014, p.39, no.10).

Provenance
Collection of Jagdish and Kamla Mittal
Collection of Milo Cleveland Beach

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