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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: GORMALAR RAGINI
MALPURA, NORTH INDIA, MID 18TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a lady holding a vina sits on a bed of lotuses flanked by two peacocks, two attendants, one with a tambourine, stand next to her, a yellow panel with 6ll. of devanagari above, between gold borders on wide red margins
Painting 9¼ x 5¾in. (23.5 x 14.4cm.); folio 13⅜ x 9⅝in. (33.9 x 24.7cm.)
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For two other illustrations from the same ragamala series, see lot 540 and lot 541 in this sale.

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