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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION Krishna and Rukmini sit within a tented enclosure before a
carefully laid out ritual re - smoke emerging as twin curling
THE MARRIAGE OF KRISHNA AND RUKMINI pu s. He holds a long-handled spoon as she sits demurely
India, Pahari, Guler, circa 1775 wrapped in a warm shawl. Brahmins tend the ames and
handmaidens emerge from an adjoining pavilion with ritual
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper objects. Musicians play outside. They sit beneath a Mandapa
image: 8¾ by 12 in. (20.3 by 30.4 cm) marriage canopy of tied poles as a ock green parrots perch
folio: 9½ by 12¾ in. (22.8 by 30.5 cm) above. The parrot is the vehicle of Kama the god of love -
perhaps these are his messengers. With blue outer borders
PROVENANCE with black and white ruled lines.
Carter Burden Collection Another related painting of the subject is in the Salar Jung
Sotheby’s New York, March 27, 1991, lot 69 Museum Hyderabad. Also see J. L. Davidson, Art of the Indian
Subcontinent from Los Angeles Collections, Los Angeles, 1968,
no. 143.
$ 10,000-15,000
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