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Maharaja Man Singh and consort on a terrace
154 Jodhpur, circa 1830
102 | Bonhams Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; the royal couple sharing wine on
an open terrace with various gold containers and platters heaped with
fresh flowers before them.
Folio: 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in. (34.3 x 26 cm)
$3,000 - 5,000

Compare with two closely related compositions in Pal, Court Paintings of
India, New York, 1983, nos R43-44m pp. 258-9.

Provenance:
Private Collection, California
F. Halesan, 1958 (inscribed verso)

154
A portrait of Maharaja Man Singh of Jodhpur
Mawar, circa 1830
The maharaja enjoys the hookah under the night sky accompanied by
three attendants, all wearing distinctive Mawari turbans.
Image: 11 1/4 x 8 in. (28.5 x 20.3 cm)
$3,000 - 5,000

Provenance:
Private Pittsburgh Collection

155
An illustration to the second Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati
Jodhpur, circa 1825
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; inscribed verso ‘..svarup.’
The Siddha is simply adorned with raised jewelry and wearing a flared
orange dhoti, the surrounding landscape forms and foliage are finely
outlined in gilt.
Folio: 18 1/8 x 16 in. (46 x 40.8 cm)
$10,000 - 15,000

This dramatic panel is the right-third of a folio of the Siddha Siddhanta
Paddhati. The yogi represents the individual human body born from union
of Purush and Prakriti.

Compare with another complete three-panel folio by the ‘Muslim artist’
(Bulaki) in Topsfield (ed.), “Court Paintings in Rajasthan”, Marg, Mumbai,
2000, p. 144, no. 5. As noted by Diamond in her essay Court Painting and
Yogic Metaphysics in Nineteenth-Century Jodhpur (ibid., p. 142), “The
Siddha Siddhanta Paddhati is attributed to Gorakhnath, a mahasiddha
and the historical founder of the Nath Sampradaya (circa 12th century),
who developed pre-existing yoga traditions into a systematized practice
for internal transformation of humans into siddhas.” Another example
from the series of this large format style of painting produced during the
reign of Maharaja Man Singh (1803-1843) can be found in Diamond, et
al., Garden & Cosmos, Washington, D.C., 2008, no. 48.

Bonhams would like to thank Dr. Debra Diamond and Dr. Catherine Glynn
for their assistance in cataloging this lot.

Provenance:
Private Collection, California
Acquired from Rudi Oriental Arts, New York, 1970s