
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
This auction has ended. View lot details




Sold for US$21,250 inc. premium
Our Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialist
International Director
Conceived with the superb proportions, Lord Ganesha is enthroned within a palace chamber. Unlike more common compositions where he is shown under an open sky, here the artist has captured an intimate scene with the single pious maiden satisfying the god's limitless appetite for all things sweet.
The layered perspective and finely detailed composition are hallmarks of the school of Sajnu, which flourished under the patronage of Ishavari Sen in the first decades of the 19th century. The delicate treatment of the lotus petals along the architrave and the chevron patterns on the tapering columns are also found on a Barahmasa page attributed to Sajnu in the Chandigarh Museum (see Archer, Indian Paintings from the Punjab Hills, London, 1973, p.274, no.44). Also compare the treatment of the maiden, and the architectural elements found in a page in the Victoria and Albert Museum (ibid., p.277, no.54), and a page from a Hamir Hartha series sold at Bonhams, New York, 11 September 2012, lot 91.
Provenance
Mandi Royal Collection
German Private Collection, 1969
Rob Dean Art, London, November 2015