A ruler in durbar on a palace terrace with noblemen,...
A ruler in durbar on a palace terrace with noblemen, soldiers and attendants, perhaps a Mahabharata scene
Pahari, Kangra, circa 1840-50
gouache and gold on paper, blue floral inner border, pink flecked outer border
260 x 355 mm.
Provenance
By family repute, acquired in London (perhaps at Spink), in the 1980s.
Private UK collection, 1980s-present.
For a painting with the same perhaps rather wooden faces, but also the same circle-and-dot motifs in the pink outer border, and the same carpet beneath the figures, see Christie's, Arts of India, 25th May 2017, lot 64.
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A ruler in durbar on a palace terrace with noblemen, soldiers and attendants, perhaps a Mahabharata scene
Pahari, Kangra, circa 1840-50
gouache and gold on paper, blue floral inner border, pink flecked outer border
260 x 355 mm.
Provenance
By family repute, acquired in London (perhaps at Spink), in the 1980s.
Private UK collection, 1980s-present.
For a painting with the same perhaps rather wooden faces, but also the same circle-and-dot motifs in the pink outer border, and the same carpet beneath the figures, see Christie's, Arts of India, 25th May 2017, lot 64.
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