8th Nov, 2023 13:00
Indian, Islamic, South East Asian and Himalayan Works of Art
713
A FOLIO FROM A BARAMASA SERIES, BUNDI, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 17TH/18TH CENTURY
gouache with gold and black ink on paper, depicting the month of Magha (January-February), Krishna and Radha on a richly decorated raised palace terrace, flanked by female attendants, with verdant forest teeming with birds in the background, a further scene with Krishna and Radha in the palace garden with musicians below, four lines of devanagari script in yellow panel at the top, the whole surrounded by a plain red margin, framed, 22 x 17cm (image); 30 x 22cm (folio)
Provenance: Private collection, London, acquired Prahlad Bubbar, London
For seven other Baramasa paintings from the same series in the British Museum, see inv. no. 1999,1202,0.5.2-8
Sold for £4,000
gouache with gold and black ink on paper, depicting the month of Magha (January-February), Krishna and Radha on a richly decorated raised palace terrace, flanked by female attendants, with verdant forest teeming with birds in the background, a further scene with Krishna and Radha in the palace garden with musicians below, four lines of devanagari script in yellow panel at the top, the whole surrounded by a plain red margin, framed, 22 x 17cm (image); 30 x 22cm (folio)
Provenance: Private collection, London, acquired Prahlad Bubbar, London
For seven other Baramasa paintings from the same series in the British Museum, see inv. no. 1999,1202,0.5.2-8
Auction: Indian, Islamic, South East Asian and Himalayan Works of Art, 8th Nov, 2023
