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SHIVA AND PARVATI ON NANDI<br />
PROBABLY GULER, PUNJAB HILLS, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, CIRCA 1820<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, together on the bull Nandi’s<br />
back, gazing lovingly at each other, a leopard skin on their shoulders, Shiva<br />
holds a tambourine, a lone tree in the background, with blue and pink border<br />
between black rules, the protective fy-leaf with six lines of black devanagari<br />
script probably an extract from a devotional text, the reverse with inscriptions<br />
in ink and pencil<br />
9¿ x 7¡in. (23.1 x 18.8cm.)<br />
£6,000-8,000 $8,600-11,000<br />
€7,500-10,000<br />
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AN EMISSARY COLLAPSES BEFORE A RAJA<br />
PROBABLY MANDI, NORTH <strong>INDIA</strong>, MID 19TH CENTURY<br />
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, a crowned fgure collapses<br />
in the arms of an attendant with a concerned ruler above, set against a<br />
background of angular architecture, within a gold and polychrome foral border<br />
on red speckled margins<br />
Painting 9¿ x 7Ωin. (23.4 x 18.8cm.); folio 11¡ x 9¬in. (29 x 24.6cm.)<br />
£4,000-6,000 $5,700-8,500<br />
€5,000-7,500<br />
A closely related depiction of Shiva and Parvati with Nandi in the Lahore<br />
Museum is attributed to Guler circa 1820 (F. S. Aijazuddin, Pahari Paintings &<br />
Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, 1977, no.51, p.55).<br />
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