Rare Paintings
 13 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Album of popular prints mounted on cloth pages. Colour lithograph, lettered, inscribed and numbered 28. The goddess Jagadhatri is seen complete with all her iconographical signs: her four hands display a conch, a discus, a shaft, and a bow. She is portrayed upon her lion mount; the lion is astrid... Read More
 13 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper from a portfolio of sixty-three paintings of deities and daily life. Durgā, of green complexion and with eight arms, rides on her vehicle. Although the body of the animal is similar to that of a large feline, its head with round, bulging eyes, beak-like nose, curly ruff... Read More
 13 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Gouache painting on paper of a market stall selling models of religious and everyday life themes. The trader is shown seated on the first tier of the stall. She wears a green sari with a yellow blouse and the pallu (headpiece of the sari) covers her head and shoulders. She wears a large amount of... Read More
 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
A NOBLEMAN AND LADY ON A TERRACE BEFORE A LAKE, GULER, CIRCA 1810-20
gouache with gold on paper, pink border with red horizontal dashes, cover paper hinged at top
painting: 21.3 by 14.9cm.

Sothebys Auction:
Art of Imperial India - 09 October 2013

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 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
A NOBLEMAN AND LADY ON A TERRACE BEFORE A LAKE, GULER, CIRCA 1810-20
gouache with gold on paper, pink border with red horizontal dashes, cover paper hinged at top
painting: 21.3 by 14.9cm.

Sothebys Auction:
Art of Imperial India - 09 October 2013

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 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
A NOBLEMAN AND LADY ON A TERRACE BEFORE A LAKE, GULER, CIRCA 1810-20
gouache with gold on paper, pink border with red horizontal dashes, cover paper hinged at top
painting: 21.3 by 14.9cm.

Sothebys Auction:
Art of Imperial India - 09 October 2013

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 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: GODA PUTRA OF MEGHA, KANGRA, CIRCA 1780-90

Gouache with gold on paper, inner blue borders, outer red borders, reverse with inscription in nagari
Painting: 20.7 by 13.2cm.

Sothebys Auction:
Art of Imperial India - 09 October 2013

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 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
A PRINCE WEARING A YELLOW DHOTI WORSHIPPING AT A SHIVA SHRINE, MUGHAL, FARRUKHABAD, CIRCA 1760-70

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the steps at the lower edge a later addition, inscription in nasta'liq script to the upper edge, laid down on an album page with outer margins decorated with l... Read More
 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE BHAGAVATA PURANA: KRISHNA ABOUT TO ABDUCT RUKMINI FROM THE GODDESS'S SHRINE ON THE HILL, MEWAR, CIRCA 1600-20

Gouache on paper, blank panels at either side, margin rules in green, yellow and red, margins of buff paper, reverse with 14 lines of text in devanagari

Painting... Read More
 6 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
A PRINCE VISITS A SAGE AT HIS FOREST DWELLING

PAHARI

Early 19th century

Gouache with gold on paper, inner blue border with floral motifs, wide red outer borders with four white cartouches containing text in nagari script, reverse with further lines of text in nagari script

Painting: 21 by 28c... Read More
 1 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Priests conducting worship inside the Baijnath temple, Deogarh - 1870

Watercolour drawing depicting Vaishnava and Shaivite priests conducting worship inside the Baijnath (Vaidyanath) temple at Deogarh, Bihar by Siva Lal (c.1820-80) working in the Patna style, part of the Archer Collection, c. ... Read More
 1 Oct 2013 Rare Paintings
Plate 11 of 'Hindoo Excavations in the Mountain of Ellora near Aurangabad,' engraved by Thomas Daniell after the drawings of his deceased friend James Wales, which Daniell regarded as the sixth set of his 'Oriental Scenery' (1803).

This Hindu cave is famous for the beauty of its sculptures. Se... Read More
 26 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
New Book:
Images of Thought: Visuality in Islamic India 1550-1750
By Gregory Minissale
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing -2009

With many illustrations and diagrams, 'Images of Thought' provides easy to follow ways in which to read Indian, Persian and European paintings in terms of comp... Read More
 26 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
At Indra's insistence, Rambha approaches Visvamitra to distract the sage from his austerities; verso: text

Folio from the Ramayana of Valmiki (The Freer Ramayana), Vol. 1, folio 61; recto:
1597-1605

By Mushfiq
Mughal dynasty

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
H: 27.5 W: 15.2 ... Read More
 26 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Folio from the Ramayana of Valmiki (The Freer Ramayana), Vol. 1, folio 38; recto: text; verso: Rama and Laksmana Confront the Demons Marica and Subahu
1597-1605

By Mohan
Mughal dynasty

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
H: 26.1 W: 13.9 cm
Northern India

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 25 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Mahajambunada fells Ravana
Folio from the Ramayana of Valmiki (The Freer Ramayana), Vol. 2, folio 312; recto: text; verso
1597-1605

Painted by Kamal
Mughal dynasty

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
H: 27.5 W: 15.2 cm
Northern India

The Freer Ramayana, an illustrated manuscript of t... Read More
 24 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Ravana converses with MAHAJAMBUNADA, who is surrounded by a ring of fire and attended by Laksmi

Folio from the Ramayana of Valmiki (The Freer Ramayana), Vol. 2, folio 313; recto
1597-1605

Painted by Kamal
Mughal dynasty

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
H: 27.5 W: 15.2 cm
Northern I... Read More
 24 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Folio from the Ramayana of Valmiki (The Freer Ramayana), Vol. 1, folio 131; recto: Ravana seizes Sita by the hair to abduct her to Lanka; verso: text
1597-1605

Painted by Shyam Sundar
Mughal dynasty

Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper
H: 26.4 W: 14.3 cm
Northern India

The Freer Ramay... Read More
 24 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Hanuman fighting with Ravana, the demon king of Lanka, opaque watercolour on paper, Kolkata, ca. 1830

Painting, in opaque watercolour with silver details, illustration to the Ramayana, Hanuman the monkey god fighting Ravana, the blue skinned, multi-headed, multi-armed demon king of Lanka again... Read More
 24 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
The demon Kumbhakarna, Trichinopoly, ca. 1825

Painting; gouache on watermarked paper.

Inscription:
'Coombhacarner the brother of Ravanah in war.' The demon Kumbhakarna, the brother of Ravana, King of Lanka.

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 24 Sep 2013 Rare Paintings
Hanuman tying Ravana with tail, watercolour and tin alloy on paper, Kalighat, Kolkata, ca. 1860

Painting, in watercolour and tin alloy on paper, a Kalighat painting of the monkey god Hanuman tying up the ten headed demon Ravana with his tail. In contrast to customary Kalighat bold shading tech... Read More