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A VIEW OF THE MOUNTAIN TEMPLES OF JUNAGARH Girnar is a group of mountains in the Junagarh district of Gujarat, sacred
PROBABLY RAJASTHAN OR GUJARAT, NORTH INDIA, SECOND HALF to both Hindus and Jains. It is home to a large number of Jain temples,
19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY the largest of which is the Neminath temple. A large map of pilgrim sites
Opaque pigments on cotton, the ground painted with an overview of a holy site along the Ganges valley used similar conventions to depict mountains,
within a lush mountainous landscape, a city on a river bank and ritual ablution with rounded pink boulders and was probably made in Rajasthan (sold at
basins in forest clearings dominated by seven peaks, each topped with a Christie's South Kensington, 12 June 2014, lot 196). The depiction of the city
shrine, identified as Junagarh in devanagari script on the border is typical of Jaipur cityscapes of the mid 19th century (see for instance four
46¿ x 47√in. (117 x 121cm.)
Jaipur illustrations offered at Christie's South Kensington, 11 October 2013,
£7,000-10,000 US$9,800-14,000 lot 565).
€8,100-12,000

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