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A FOLIO FROM A BARAMASA SERIES
NORTHWEST INDIA, RAJASTHAN OR NORTHERN DECCAN,
CIRCA 1700-1720
Image 9¿ x 5√ in. (23.2 x 14.9 cm.)
The Baramasa theme of the twelve-month cycle of the seasons has long been
$3,000-5,000
celebrated in the artistic traditions of India. Perhaps the best-known text of
Bhadon (July-August) is found in the tenth chapter of the Kavipriya written by
PROVENANCE the poet Keshav Das of Orchha (1555-1617):
The Lanier Collection, acquired in the mid-1990s, by repute.
The clouds are gathering, thunder rolls and rain pours in torrents.
A nobleman and his beloved - a nayaka and a nayika - stand speaking before The wind blows fercely, the cicadas chirp.
a pavilion. He appears dressed to leave for battle as she ofers a parting Lions roar and the elephants fell the trees.
gift. On a nearby hillside tigers roar and an elephant pulls at a tree branch Day is dark like night and one’s home is best.
with his trunk. The evening sky is rendered in a dark blue, with signs of the Pray leave me not in the month of Bhadon
approaching monsoon. for separation pains like poison.