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THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTOR
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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE BHAGAVATA PURANA
CENTRAL INDIA, DATIA SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY
Image 13Ω x 9 in. (34.4 x 22.9 cm.)
folio 16¿ x 11√ in. (41.1 x 30.3 cm.)

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE
Purchased from Maggs London, 1985, by repute.
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A GOSWAMY STANDS BEFORE AN IMAGE OF SRI NATHJI
NORTH INDIA, RAJASTHAN, NATHDWARA OR KISHANGARTH,
SECOND HALF OF THE 19TH CENTURY
Image 12¿ x 9¬ in. (30.9 x 24.5 cm.)
folio 13√ x 10√ in. (32.2 x 27.5 cm.)

$2,000-3,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, since 1978, by repute.
Sri Nathji is depicted wearing a gold chakdar jama and headdress, standing
within a blue decorative niche surrounded by a backdrop picchvai of six facing
cows. A goswamy ofers a covered silver vessel and a brahmin attends holding
a morchal (ceremonial fy whisk).
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