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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 362

AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGMALA SERIES: MALKOS RAGA , INDIA , AMBER, CIRCA 1700-10
Estimate: 7,000 - 9,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF H. PETER STERN
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGMALA SERIES: MALKOS RAGA
INDIA, AMBER, CIRCA 1700-10

Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold

image: 9 ¾ by 6 in. (24.8 by 15.2 cm)

folio: 14 by 10 in. (35.5 by 25.4 cm)

Provenance
Acquired in the 1980s

Catalogue Note
A young lord is attended by ladies and entertained by musicians in an open courtyard before a terraced pavilion.

The inscription above identifies the painting as a depiction of Malkos Raga. For another representation of the same subject, also
from Amber and of similar date but with a slightly variant iconography, see K. Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, pps. 50-51,
C13.

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