THE PROPERTY OF A NOBLE LADY
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAKUBHA RAGININORTH INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, BILASPUR, CIRCA 1780-1800
Price Realised USD 5,000
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USD 5,000 - USD 7,000
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AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAKUBHA RAGINI
NORTH INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, BILASPUR, CIRCA 1780-1800
Price Realised USD 5,000
Price Realised USD 5,000
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Lot Essay
Ragamala (“Garlands of Ragas”) manuscripts are comprised of imagined illustrations of ragas (musical modes) that are each associated with an emotional state, mostly pertaining to romantic relationships. In the Punjab Hills they became one of the most popular subjects for painting in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In the present painting, a lady is depicted seated on a terrace waiting for her lover. She is wearing an orange peshvaj and a blue odhani with floral garlands wrapped around her wrists. Three peafowl walk across the foreground as the lady gazes longingly into the distance. Calligraphy and gilding illumination on verso.
Lot 15
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NORTH INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, BILASPUR, CIRCA 1780-1800
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAKUBHA RAGINI
Estimate: USD 5,000 - 7,000
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