AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: BAIRADA RAGINI
INDIA, DECCAN, HYDERABAD, CIRCA 1800
Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500
Auction: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 BST
Description
gouache on a paper heightened with gold, mounted on an album page with gilt decorated borders, depicting a couple caressing on a palace terrace, a female attendant preparing a bed-chamber to the left, formal gardens in the background, an inscription in nasta'liq on painted surface, a nasta'liq quatrain on the reverse, mounted, glazed and framed
Dimensions
sight size: 34.5cm x 23.2cm