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PROPERTY FROM THE LANIER COLLECTION pagri (turban). He wears a mauve mala (garland) of blossoms
around his neck. His beautifully dressed and bejeweled
RATHOR MAHARAJA JAGAT SINGH AND HIS bride facing him with a matching blossom garland - holding
CONSORT WEAR FLOWER GARLANDS a ask o ering another drink of intoxicating liquor - her feet
India, Rajasthan, Marwar, possibly Ghanerao, seem to levitate above the strip of dark ground at bottom. A
handmaiden holds his sheathed sword and a slender whisk
rst half of the 19th Century signifying the occasion. The group standing in a formal frieze
beautifully composed against a at apple green ground rising
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper to a blue band of sky.
image: 10¼ by 7⅔ in. (25.4 by 17.8 cm)
folio: 12 by 9¼ in. (30.5 by 22.8 cm) Laid within bu /natural specked outer border strips of gray-
silver oral design with inner black ruled lines.
PROVENANCE
For further discussion on Marwar painting see R. Crill, Marwar
The Mewar Royal Collection Painting: A History of the Jodhpur Style, Mumbai, 1999.
Simon Ray Ltd., London
Acquired 2004 $ 6,000-8,000
Raja Jagat Singh stands strikingly upright holding a small
gold cup. He wears a owing white muslin pleated jama and
ankle-length patka (sash) and brilliant cinnabar-red Rathor
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