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Folio from a Devi Mahatmaya series: VISHNU WITH MADHU AND KAITABHA
KANGRA, NORTH INDIA, MID-19TH CENTURY
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Vishnu reclines on Shesha, Brahma sits on a lotus rising from Vishnu's navel, the primeval ocean as a background, the demons Madhu and Kaitabha to the right, the multi-armed goddess Mahamaya with her weapons and wearing a necklace of severed heads, with floral borders on blue ground, with protective fly-leaf
8 1/8 x 11 7/8in. (21 x 30.5cm.)
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