Details
Image 638 x 938 in. (16.2 x 23.8 cm.)
Folio 8 x 1114 in. (20.3 x 28.6 cm.)
Provenance
Private New York collection.
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The present painting from Guler depicts the Lord Ganesha seated on a lotus flower. In his trunk he holds a ladoo, the god’s preferred sweetmeat, and his four arms carry an elephant goad, a rosary and a second ladoo. The image is strikingly painted using a restricted palette, and is unusual in that the god is shown crowned. The horizontal stripes on his body indicate the Shiva ambit of his worship. Compare the present lot to a similar Pahari painting of Ganesha seated on a lotus flower from circa 1720, from the collection of the British Museum (acc. no. 1966,0212,0.3).

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