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FOLIO 41 FROM THE EARLIEST KSHEMAKARNA RAGAMALA: FOLIO 24 FROM THE EARLIEST KSHEMAKARNA RAGAMALA:
VASANT PUTRA OF RAGA HINDOLA MISHTANGA PUTRA MALKOS RAGA
POPULAR MUGHAL, CIRCA 1610 POPULAR MUGHAL, CIRCA 1610
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
Image: 6 x 9 in. (15.1 x 22.7 cm); Image: 5 x 6 3/4 in. (12.7 x 17.1 cm);
Folio: 8 7/8 x 11 3/4 in. (22.5 x 29.8 cm) Folio: 8 3/4 x 11 3/4 in. (22.2 x 29.8 cm)
$10,000 - 15,000 $7,000 - 9,000
Previously attributed to the Deccan, this ragamala series is now thought Published
to be Popular Mughal. The series appears to be the earliest surviving Ludwig Habighorst, Moghul Ragamala, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz,
example of Kshemakarna’s 1570 text describing the Ragamala. For 2006, p.77, no.24.
an illustrated article on this set, see Bautze, “Iconographic Remarks Ludwig Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Ragaputra Edition
on Some Folios of the Oldest Illustrated Kshemakarna Ragamala”, in Koblenz, 2011, p.25, fig.9.
Exploration in the History of South Asia: Essays in Honour of Dietmar Exhibited
Rothermund, New Delhi, 1999, pp.155-62. Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Völkerkunde-Museum, Hamburg, 17
Published March – 27 October 2013.
Ludwig Habighorst, Moghul Ragamala, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, Provenance
2006, p.86, no.41.
Ludwig Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Ragaputra Edition, Private German Collection
Koblenz, 2011, p.23, fig.7.
Ludwig Habighorst, Der Blaue Gott, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz, 2014, 819
p.57, fig.22. FOLIO 83 FROM THE EARLIEST KSHEMAKARNA RAGAMALA:
Harsha Dehejia, Festival of Krishna, New Delhi, 2008, p.401. GUNDA PUTRA OF RAGA MEGHA
POPULAR MUGHAL, CIRCA 1610
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper.
Exhibited
Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Völkerkunde-Museum, Hamburg, 17 Image: 4 5/8 x 7 1/2 in. (11.7 x 19 cm);
March - 27 October 2013. Folio: 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (21.5 x 29.8 cm)
Der Blaue Gott, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, 26 July - 5 October 2014. $8,000 - 12,000
Published
Provenance Ludwig Habighorst, Moghul Ragamala, Ragaputra Edition, Koblenz,
Private German Collection 2006, p.110, no.83.
Ludwig Habighorst, Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Ragaputra Edition
Koblenz, 2011, p.24, fig.8.
Exhibited
Blumen – Bäume – Göttergärten, Völkerkunde-Museum, Hamburg, 17
March – 27 October 2013.
Provenance
18 | BONHAMS Private German Collection