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An illustration to a ragamala series: kanada putra megha Provincial Mughal, c.1610-20 image 1
An illustration to a ragamala series: kanada putra megha Provincial Mughal, c.1610-20 image 2
Lot 104

An illustration to a ragamala series: kanada putra megha
Provincial Mughal, c.1610-20

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An illustration to a ragamala series: kanada putra megha

Provincial Mughal, c.1610-20
Opaque watercolor on paper; against a chocolate ground panel of blossoming sprigs under a palace enclosure, a prince plays a tambura and gestures the counts of beats to the accompanying drummer; three line devanagari inscription above and numbered '13' at lower right.
Image: 6 1/2 x 8 3/8 in. (16.4 x 21.2 cm); Folio: 9 x 11 3/4 in. (22.7 x 29.7 cm)

Footnotes

This ragamala with its elaborate surface patterns was previously thought to originate in the Deccan but has more recently been described as popular Mughal. It is of particular interest as it appears to be the earliest surviving example of the use of Kshemakarna's text. For an illustrated article on this set, see Bautze, "Iconographic Remarks on Some Folios of the oldest Illustrated Kshemakarna Ragamala", Exploration in the History of South Asia: Essays in Honour of Dietmar Rothermund, 1999, pp. 155-62.

Another page from this series is held in the Cleveland Museum of Art (2001.112), two are held in the Claudio Moscatelli Collection, see Glynn et al., Ragamala, London, 2011, pp. 66-69, nos 14 & 15. Also see Habighorst, Ragamala, Koblenz, 2006, p. 45. Others from the series also sold at Christie's, New York, 31 March 2005, lot 226 and Christie's, London, 23 October 2007.

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Please note this lot in fact depicts Folio 13, Velavali Putra of Bhairava.

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