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Lot 158

An illustration to a Panchakhyana series: A king in discussion with his courtiers within and around pavilions
Mewar, circa 1700

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

£2,000 - £3,000

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An illustration to a Panchakhyana series: A king in discussion with his courtiers within and around pavilions
Mewar, circa 1700

gouache and gold on paper, yellow panel at top with two lines of text in nagari script, red border
257 x 218 mm.

Footnotes

This painting is folio no. 39 from a dispersed Panchakhyana series (a Jain recension of the Panchatantra tales). The Panchakhyana series were a response by Mewar artists to the accessible narrative themes and engaging animal fables of the Panchatantra (Five Discourses), a Mirror for Princes text, to impart worldly wisdom for the ideal prince to follow. Another folio from this series, formerly in the Elvira and Gursharan Sidhu collection, is now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.90.160.2).

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