Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
37<br />
AN ILLUSTRATION TO THE SURSAGAR<br />
<strong>OF</strong> SURDAS<br />
MEWAR, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1750<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />
the various scenes set in a luxuriant landscape,<br />
Shiva seated in a rocky cave at top, Krishna<br />
within a forest hut below, worshipped by ladies, a<br />
procession with a ruler on horseback in the centre,<br />
the blind sage and author Surdas depicted against<br />
a red ground pavilion in the upper right hand<br />
corner, fve lines of devanagari text within a yellow<br />
cartouche at top, in yellow, black and white rules<br />
with red borders, loss in upper left border<br />
12æ x 13æin. (32.3 x 34.8cm.)<br />
£5,000-8,000 $7,200-11,000<br />
€6,300-10,000<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Acquired before 1991.<br />
This scene juxtaposes Krishna and Radha in their<br />
forest grove with the divine couple of Vishnu and<br />
Parvati in their mountain abode. For a similar<br />
slightly earlier illustration to the Sursagar dated<br />
to circa 1725-35 see Andrew Topsfeld, Court<br />
Painting at Udaipur, Zurich, 2001, no.124, p.149.<br />
37<br />
38<br />
THE SWING FESTIVAL: SHRI BIHARIJI<br />
WORSHIPPED BY EIGHT LADIES<br />
RAJASTHAN, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, SECOND HALF<br />
18TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />
the icons of Shri Bihariji and his consort stand<br />
on a swing, eight ladies around, two holding fy<br />
whisks, one with a large fan, the scene takes place<br />
in a luxuriant landscape inhabited by peacocks, a<br />
silver pond with lotuses in the foreground, within<br />
black rules and wide red borders, the reverse with<br />
identifcation inscription in devanagari script<br />
8¡ x 12Ωin. (21.3 x 31.8cm.)<br />
£3,000-4,000 $4,300-5,700<br />
€3,800-5,000<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Acquired before 1991.<br />
38<br />
39<br />
INDRAJIT <strong>OF</strong> ORCCHA DURING THE<br />
SWING FESTIVAL<br />
DATIA, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1753<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper,<br />
the maharaja wears bright yellow robes and<br />
turban, seated on a dais under an awning, he holds<br />
a rose in his left hand, with the right he pulls a cord<br />
enabling the shrine of Krishna and Radha to swing,<br />
courtiers seated behind him, musicians playing<br />
music before him, a fne garden and banana trees<br />
behind, peacocks frolicking by a silver pond in the<br />
foreground, in black borders above and below<br />
11Ω x 16æin. (29 x 42.5cm.)<br />
£2,000-3,000 $2,900-4,300<br />
€2,500-3,700<br />
PROVENANCE:<br />
Sotheby’s, New York, 25 March 1987, lot 58.<br />
26