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Lot 256*

Maharana Sangram Singh II (reg. 1710-1734) seated in a pavilion smoking a hookah with a consort in the Sarvaritu Vilas gardens, female attendants nearby dancing and playing music, a deity holding a bow with a female companion in a tree in the background
Mewar, circa 1730

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £32,500 inc. premium

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Maharana Sangram Singh II (reg. 1710-1734) seated in a pavilion smoking a hookah with a consort in the Sarvaritu Vilas gardens, female attendants nearby dancing and playing music, a deity holding a bow with a female companion in a tree in the background
Mewar, circa 1730

gouache and gold on paper, yellow panel at top with three lines of text in nagari script and the numeral 26, red outer border, in mount
400 x 265 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance:
Sotheby's, Indian and Southeast Asian Art, New York, 4th June 1994, lot 146.

Painting at Mewar flourished under Sangram Singh and production at the court studio during his reign was prolific, recording ceremonies of the ruler with his court, hunting expeditions, religious themes and court life in general. The Mewari artists of this period established a pattern for the Udaipur court studio to follow for the next two centuries with the continuation of these themes.

For comparison see:
A. Topsfield, Paintings from Rajasthan in the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 1980, nos. 71-82.
A. Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich 2001, pp. 141-177.
J. Williams, Kingdom of the Sun, San Francisco 2007, nos. 14 & 15.

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