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 4 May 2013 Rare Paintings
A raja with attendants receives instruction from four religious teachers. Painted on Paper.

1800 (circa)
Pahari School

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 3 May 2013 Rare Paintings
This is a copy of a painting in cave 16 at Ajanta. These cave paintings are the oldest surviving examples of painting in India. They date from the 1st century BC to about AD 480 and depict stories from the lives of the Buddha (the Jatakas). This painting depicts a scene from the Bhagavan Jataka i... Read More
 3 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Album leaf, copy (?). Devotion. Prince Parvíz (?) visiting a religious teacher with attendants with inscription. On paper.

1770 (circa)
Mughal Style

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 3 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Album leaf; painting depicting a Mulla kneeling with an open book rested against his knee expounding in the court of a mosque, surrounded by three engaged students. Another man lays (in a prostrating position) on cushions directly behind, while another man addresses a wounded foot in the foregrou... Read More
 3 May 2013 Rare Paintings
Depiction of a scene in a school. An instructor is shown seated beneath a canopy writing on a scoll surrounded by his pupils. Outside the walls a group of men stand next to their horses listening to another man seated upon a box.

Detached album folio containing a single-page coloured drawing. ... Read More
 1 May 2013 Sculpture
Disk Stone with a Four-Part Design of Palmettes and Lotus Buds

Date: 1st century B.C.
Ancient region of Gandhara, Taxila
Stone
Dimensions: Diam. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm)
Sculpture

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 1 May 2013
Gold Earring, Taxila (?), 1st-2nd century A.D

These ear-rings are made from sheet gold, cut into shape and embellished with gold granules and wire decoration. Two have vase shaped pendants set with either a turquoise or a pearl bead, and a third has a pendant composed of a gold spherical bead ... Read More
 1 May 2013
Figure holding a mirror, gold with lac-filled base, Taxila, 1st-2nd century AD.

This diminutive figure may have decorated a hair pin or served as the finial to a hand mirror of the type being held by the figure itself. The figure reflects the stylistic cross-currents at work in the north-weste... Read More
 1 May 2013 Sculpture
Female Head, terracotta, 6th-7th century, Gandharan style, Jammu, India

The site of Pambarvan, near Akhnur, appears to have been a Buddhist stupa site. Sixth century Gupta coins have been found, together with the terracotta remains of sculptural decorations, most notably a series of terracotta... Read More
 30 Apr 2013 Sculpture
Representation of Mañjuśrī

Figure (Manjusri). Holding lotus and flanked by scrolled borders.
Made of sandstone.

Findspot: Nalanda

ca. 8th Century

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 29 Apr 2013
Sealing

A flattened terracotta ball impressed with a sealing bearing three large stūpas and six smaller ones. Below the Pratītyasamutpāda Gāthā in three lines.

Excavated/Findspot: Nalanda, site 9.

ca.10 century

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Princess listening to music
Guler, India
ca. 1810-ca. 1820
Gouache on paper
Pahari style

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Brush drawing on paper, with touches of red, depicting drawings of a female musician.

Rajasthan, India (Jodhpur or Bikaner)
c. 1820

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Ladies embracing, attended by servants with wine and music, and a servant with a peacock fan.

18th century AD
Watercolour and gilt on paper
Mughal

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
A lady seated on a chair on a terrace with two attendants listening to music. Signed.

18th century
Mughal Style

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 18 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Drawing. Two lovers listening to music played by women. Drawn on paper. Nala and Damayanti (?).

18th century
Pahari Style (Pahari School)

This term refers to paintings created in the small Rajput courts of the Punjab Hills. While the Pahari region was occupied from the 7th century onwards,... Read More
 17 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
A shaykh and companions listen to music at night. (c.1645)
La'lchand (artist, attributed)

Watercolour and gilt on paper

An album of 41 Indian paintings, chiefly from the Shahjahan period (1628-1658), expressive of the Mughal lineage of Shahjahan; with 37 calligraphic specimens by Mīr Alī-a... Read More
 17 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
Album leaf. Devotion. Music. Woman visiting hermit playing vina with attendant and dog.
On paper.

18th century
Mughal style

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 17 Apr 2013 New Books
New Book:
Ragamala: Paintings from India
By Anna L. Dallapiccola, Catherine Glynn, Robert Skelton
Published by Philip Wilson Publishers - 2011

Ragamala is a unique form of Indian miniature painting developed by combining a variety of sources including musical codes and accompanying poetry to ind... Read More
 16 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
The Ragas in Ragamala

Six are male (parent) ragas; the thirty raginis are their wives and the remaining forty-eight are their sons. These are listed is as follows:

(1) Parent Raga: Bhairav raga
Wives: Bhairavi, Bilawali, Punyaki, Bangli, Aslekhi. Sons: Pancham, Harakh, Disakh, Bangal, Madh... Read More
 16 Apr 2013 Rare Paintings
RAGAMALA Paintings are a series of illustrative paintings from medieval India based on Ragamala or the 'Garland of Ragas', depicting various Indian musical modes, Ragas. They stand as a classical example of the amalgamation of art, poetry and classical music in medieval India.

Ragamala paintin... Read More