AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: MADHUMADAVI RAGINI
INDIA, ANDHRA PRADESH, KURNOOL, CIRCA 1810-20
£3,276
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
gouache on paper heightened in gold, brown border with red margin rules, depicting a highly detailed scene with a maiden at the centre standing on her bed, two attendants to her left and two seated musicians to her right, her hands up in the air, on a carpeted terrace, orderly gardens in the background with various birds resting in exotic trees, in the distance a palace on a mountain top, all under a stormy night sky, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
Sight size 30.5cm x 25cm
Footnote
Kurnool, on the banks of the river Tungabhadra and over a hundred miles from Hyderabad, was a large subordinate state of the capital with an important school of painting. For comparison and further reference see, M. Zebrowski, Deccani Painting, London, 1983, pp. 15, 148-149. 23 9, 244-245, 263, 272-273.