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TWO ILLUSTRATIONS FROM A MARKANDEYA PURANA PROVENANCE
SERIES: KALI GIVES A TERRIBLE CRY; AND CANDIKA AND KALI Mandi Royal Collection.
Private collection, Germany.
PREPARE TO ATTACK SUMBHA’S ARMY
GULER, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1810
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper Some of the original drawings, attributed to the Nainsukh family, from which
Each image 5¡ x 8º in. (13.7 x 20.9 cm.); folio 6¡ x 9¿ (16 x 23 cm.) (2) this series was composed survive; six are in the Mittal Collection (John Seyller
and Jagdish Mittal, Pahari Drawings in the Kamla and Jagdish Mittal Collection,
$12,000-18,000
Hyderabad, 2013, nos.23-28, pp.70-85). One of these is exactly the same
composition as the frst of the two paintings ofered in this lot, Kali giving a
terrible cry.
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