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Lot 157

Malkos raga: a prince seated in a pavilion with female musicians and attendants
Datia, Madhya Pradesh, circa 1725

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Malkos raga: a prince seated in a pavilion with female musicians and attendants
Datia, Madhya Pradesh, circa 1725

gouache and gold on paper, yellow panel at top with eight lines of text in nagari script, red border
330 x 264 mm.

Footnotes

Compare with another page from this series formerly in the Paul F. Walter Collection (see Pratapaditya Pal, The Classical Tradition in Rajput Paintings, New York, 1978, no. 34, and Pratapaditya Pal, Pleasure Gardens of the Mind: Indian Paintings from the Jane Green Collection, 1993, pp. 116-19, no. 40). Also see Christie's, London, April 24, 1980 and another in the Dr. Kaywin Lehman Smith Collection, sold at Sotheby's, New York, October 6, 1990, lot 186.

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