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TILKAYAT DAUJI II CELEBRATING ANNAKUT BEFORE KR. RAJMALJI AND KR. CHANDMALJI RIDING TO A MELA
SHRI NATHJI KOTAH, 1882
NATHDWARA, CIRCA 1810 Opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper; recto with a lengthy
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. inscription: dated by inscription to Samvat 1939 (1882 CE).
Image: 9 3/8 x 6 3/4 in. (24 x 17.2 cm); Image: 15 1/4 x 13 in. (38.8 x 33 cm)
Folio: 10 5/8 x 8 in. (27 x 20.4 cm) Folio: 18 1/4 x 16 1/8 in. (46.3 x 40.9 cm)

$4,000 - 6,000 $5,000 - 8,000

Dauji II, also known as Damodarji, stands at the painting’s threshold Two noblemen are depicted riding highly decorated prancing
venerating Shri Nathji. Dauji II ruled Nathdwara peacefully between horses and escorted by their armed retinue. At the far right of the
1797 and 1826 and is credited with building a large sanctuary hemispherical horizon, a city can be seen, while on the left, a family
(gaushala) for 4000 temple cows. See a later, posthumous, but closely of gazelle ponders the travelers. The bright, turquoise foreground and
related, painting of Dauji II performing arati on the day of Sapta- zigzag riverbank are characteristic of later Bundi and Kotah school
Svarpotsava, which is dated 1846 (Ambalal, Krishna as Shrinathji, paintings. See earlier portraits of Ram Singh II of Kota in the Los
New York, 1987, p.66), and a smaller version in the Ambalal Collection Angeles County Museum (El Universo de la India, Santiago, 2012,
(Ghose, Gates of the Lord, Chicago, 2016, p.31, fig.9). p.230), Welch, Gods, Kings and Tigers, New York 1997, no.63, and
Cimino, Life at Court in Rajasthan, Florence 1985, pl.7, nos.3 & 33.
Provenance
Collection of Milo Cleveland Beach Provenance
Collection of Milo Cleveland Beach

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