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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 372

AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: KEDARA RAGAPUT RA , INDIA , BILASPU R CIRCA 1750
Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA COLLECTION
AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: KEDARA RAGAPUTRA
INDIA, BILASPUR CIRCA 1750

Opaque watercolor on paper heightened with gold

image: 8 ½ by 5 in. (21.6 by 12.7 cm)

folio: 10 ⅜ by 6 ⅞ in. (26.4 by 17.5 cm), unframed

Provenance
Sotheby’s New York, June 4 1994, lot 371

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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