An illustration from a Panchatantra series: a ruler receiving winged angels playing musical instruments, ascetics and courtiers with maidens at worship on a hillside, maidens as serpents paying homage to a ruler in the foreground
Mewar, circa 1720
Mewar, circa 1720
gouache on paper, yellow panel at top with two lines of nagari text, red border, framed
240 x 400 mm.
240 x 400 mm.
Sold for
£1,320
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
The Property of a Nobleman.
Formerly with the Doris Wiener Gallery, New York.
Panchatantra stories were allegorical fables similar to those of Aesop.
Category: Islamic and Oriental Art / Islamic and Indian Art
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