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170 An illustration from a mahabharata series
Bilaspur, circa 1670-80
Opaque watercolor on paper; Princes conduct a
conference under a canopy outside a palace.
Image: 8 5/8 x 11 1/4 in. (22.2 x 28.5 cm)
$800 - 1,200

A closely related scene from the same
manuscript is in the San Diego Museum of Art
(1990.1258).

Provenance:
From the collection of the late Peter Cochrane

170
Woman with a sleeping child
Bilaspur, circa 1700
Opaque watercolor on paper; the interior palace
scene with a nurse watching over her sleeping
child in the upper section, while the exhausted
mother(?) is pampered by three attendants.
Image: 9 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (23.4 x 16.7 cm)
$1,500 - 2,500

171
A book cover
Pahari, 18th century
Opaque watercolor on layered paper; A groom
leading a dappled blue horse against a red
ground and green leaf border, verso with
alternating bands of yellow and black.
Image: 7 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. (19.4 x 29.7 cm);
Cover: 12 7/8 x 17 1/8 in. (32.7 x 43.4 cm)
$1,500 - 2,000

172
An illustration from a ragamala series:
ahiri ragini
Bilaspur, 1700-1720
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; the lady
sitting on a striped rug in the veranda of her
house conversing with six snakes that emerge
from stacked wicker baskets.
Image: 8 1/2 x 5 in. (21.5 x 12.7 cm); Folio: 10
1/2 x 7 in. (26.7 X 17.8 cm)
$4,000 - 6,000

This same subject occurs in the Basohli ragamala
of around 1700 (see Ebeling, Ragamala Painting,
Basel, 1973, fig. 335, as well as in the later
Basohli ragamala series in Berlin, in a painting
which is clearly based on the present lot see
Waldschmidt, Miniatures of Musical Inspiration
in the Collection of the Berlin Museum of Indian
Art, Part I, fig. 44.

See lot 173 for further discussion on this series.

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