AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: GAUNDKARI RAGINI JAIPUR, CIRCA 1760

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: GAUNDKARI RAGINI JAIPUR, CIRCA 1760 Opaque watercolor and gold on paper; recto inscribed with six lines of devanagari in the upper register, starting with the raga's identification. Image: 9 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. (24.8 x 18.1 cm); Folio: 11 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. (29.8 x 23.8 cm) Footnotes: Bountiful flora and fauna surround the two women. The maiden protagonist, seated on a glorious lotus, reaches forward to pet the tame antelope while holding her vina in her other hand. Three pages from this series are in the San Diego Museum of Art (1990.8.851, 855 & 856). Another page is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.71.1.42), see Rosenfield, The Arts of India and Nepal, Boston, 1966, p. 173. Another contemporaneous example of this raga from Jaipur or Amber was sold at Christie's, London, 12 June 2018, lot 20. Provenance Private Collection, New York Acquired in Paris in 1980s Bonhams, New York, 18 September 2013, lot 132 Conley Harris Collection, Boston For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing