RAGAMALA [Garland of Ragas]. North India, Rajasthan (Jaipur ...

RAGAMALA [Garland of Ragas]. North India, Rajasthan (Jaipur style), late 19th to early 20th century. A substantial suite of 16 miniatures in gouache and gilt on wasli, each depicts a musical mode including Nat (battle), Dipak (lamps), and Vasanta (Krishna), central vignettes enclosed by varying gilt borders (scrolling foliate with birds, floral diamond trellis, millefleur), surmounted by Devanagari cartouches identifying the ragas, each circa 31 x 23 cm, f&g. (16)

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