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.
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A few circular watermarks with associated discoloration including at the fruit trees at the left side of the painting, the legs of the peacock at the lower left side of the painting. Additional light water staining in the upper half of the painting. Light abrasion with associated pigment losses scattered throughout. Verso: with expected light abrasion and associated pigment loss.
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拍品 15拍賣 19016
NORTH INDIA, PUNJAB HILLS, BILASPUR, CIRCA 1780-1800AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: KAKUBHA RAGINI估價: USD 5,000 - 7,000