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19 AN ILLUSTRATION FROM THE RAMAYANA OF SANGRAM SINGH II: GARUDA VISITS RAMA UDAIPUR, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1710-20 Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, in an hermitage surrounded by rocky outcrops Rama and Sita address three warriors after their respite and before bathing in the river, Garuda, a white stallion and an ass overlook the scenes, a yellow cartouche with two lines of black devanagari script on yellow ground above, numbered 166 10º x 16Ωin. (26 x 42cm.) £4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,500 €5,000-7,500 A very similar depiction of the forest home of Rama and Sita also from the Ramayana of Maharana Sangram Singh II of Mewar (r.1710-34), is in the collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot, (Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting: Mewar, Marwar and Dhundhar, Milan, 2009, ME. 25, p.47). 20 A MEWARI RULER PERFORMING PUJA MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, MID 19TH CENTURY Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the large ruler in diaphanous attire and richly bejewelled reclining on a bolster, his retinue seated and standing around him, two priests and a smaller group of worshippers attend the ceremony facing an altar of Krishna on a terrace overlooking a river, in gold foral margins reserved on blue ground, within gold and white rules and red borders 15 x 19Ωin. (38.2 x 49.5cm.) £5,000-7,000 $7,200-10,000 €6,300-8,700 16
21 MAHARANA BHIM SINGH IN PROCESSION MEWAR, NORTH INDIA, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the ruler and his fy whisk bearer sit in a howdah on a richly caparisoned elephant, surrounded by his retinue, standard and mace bearers, within thin green margins, black and white rules and red borders 17Ω x 12ºin. (44.5 x 31cm.) £8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000 €10,000-15,000 For a similar depiction of Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar (r.1778- 1818), dated to 1802 which is in the City Palace Museum see Andrew Topsfeld, Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich, 2001, no.196, p.220. 22 A LARGE ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: LADIES PICKING FLOWERS TO MAKE GARLANDS PANNA, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1700-20 Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, three ladies feed a parakeet perched in a tree, a marble pavilion to their right, another sits and leans against a bolster placed on a raised platform, a fountain behind, other ladies are busy collecting fowers, a sunset skyline at top, the reverse with two lines of black and red devanagari script at top, mounted 15 x 10¡in. (38 x 26.5cm.) £8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000 €10,000-15,000 This large and fne illustration from a ragamala set is heavily infuenced by Mughal painting. However it appears to come from Panna in Madhya Pradesh. Three other paintings from this series are in the Konrad Seitz Collection and published in Konrad Seitz, Orchha, Datia, Panna: Miniaturen von der rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands (1580-1820), 2015, cat. 56.1-56.3. Other folios are published in Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting, from the collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot, Turin, 2009, MW10, p.197 and Karl Khandavala et al., Miniature Painting from the Sri Motichand Khajanchi Collection, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1960, pp.44-45, no.57- a-c. It seems dificult to identify the present ragamala scenes but according to Eberling, a lady stringing garlands can be identifed as Kamod Ragini (Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, cat. 260, p.260). 17
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MAHARANA BHIM SINGH IN PROCESSION<br />
MEWAR, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, FIRST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the ruler and his fy whisk<br />
bearer sit in a howdah on a richly caparisoned elephant, surrounded by his<br />
retinue, standard and mace bearers, within thin green margins, black and<br />
white rules and red borders<br />
17Ω x 12ºin. (44.5 x 31cm.)<br />
£8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000<br />
€10,000-15,000<br />
For a similar depiction of Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar (r.1778- 1818),<br />
dated to 1802 which is in the City Palace Museum see Andrew Topsfeld,<br />
Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich, 2001, no.196, p.220.<br />
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A LARGE ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: LADIES<br />
PICKING FLOWERS TO MAKE GARLANDS<br />
PANNA, CENTRAL <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1700-20<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, three ladies feed a parakeet<br />
perched in a tree, a marble pavilion to their right, another sits and leans against<br />
a bolster placed on a raised platform, a fountain behind, other ladies are busy<br />
collecting fowers, a sunset skyline at top, the reverse with two lines of black<br />
and red devanagari script at top, mounted<br />
15 x 10¡in. (38 x 26.5cm.)<br />
£8,000-12,000 $12,000-17,000<br />
€10,000-15,000<br />
This large and fne illustration from a ragamala set is heavily infuenced<br />
by Mughal painting. However it appears to come from Panna in Madhya<br />
Pradesh. Three other paintings from this series are in the Konrad Seitz<br />
Collection and published in Konrad Seitz, Orchha, Datia, Panna: Miniaturen<br />
von der rajputischen Höfen Bundelkhands (1580-1820), 2015, cat. 56.1-56.3.<br />
Other folios are published in Vicky Ducrot, Four Centuries of Rajput Painting,<br />
from the collection of Isabella and Vicky Ducrot, Turin, 2009, MW10,<br />
p.197 and Karl Khandavala et al., Miniature Painting from the Sri Motichand<br />
Khajanchi Collection, New Delhi, Lalit Kala Akademi, 1960, pp.44-45, no.57-<br />
a-c. It seems dificult to identify the present ragamala scenes but according<br />
to Eberling, a lady stringing garlands can be identifed as Kamod Ragini<br />
(Klaus Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel, 1973, cat. 260, p.260).<br />
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