Lot 82

COURTESAN AT A LINGHAM SHRINE
MUGHAL INDIA, CIRCA 1760






Auction: 10 June 2026 from 14:00 BST
Description
gouache on paper heightened in gold, within gold and blue borders, mounted on an album page with gilt-floral lattice, a bare-breasted maiden richly adorned with jewels worshipping at a shrine, bearing offerings and wearing an orange skirt about her waist, a transparent dopatta over her head and shoulders
Dimensions
15.1cm x 10.7cm., album page 33.2cm x 26.5cm
Footnote
The subject of this painting closely resembles the ragamala illustration, Bhairavi ragini.





