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211 THREE SHADOW PUPPETS, DECCAN, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY painted, cut and pierced vellum, one with remaining split bamboo handle, each depicting forms of Vishnu, one seated with his consort, inscriptions in kannada 73 x 50cm approx. each Provenance: Private collection, Northern England For a closely related puppet in the Museum of Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon, near Delhi, see Subhashini Aryan, Unknown Masterpieces of Indian Folk and Tribal Art, Gurgaon 2005, p. 83, no. 152.
213 TWO TANTRIC PATAKAS, RAJASTHAN, INDIA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY ink and gouache on paper, each with yantra inscribed with mantras in devanagari script, one in the form of a lotus with figures of Ganesha, Durga and others, the other a diagrammatic roundel 51 x 53cm; 50 x 52cm £300-400
The style of the imagery, the figures with distinctive bulging eyes, is closely related to the ‘Paithan’ type of painting, several examples of which can been seen in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. nos. IS.18-29. 1991). It is now believed that these paintings were in fact produced in several centres further south, something underlined by the kannada inscriptions. £400-600
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214 A COLLECTION OF MISCELLANEOUS MANUSCRIPT FOLIOS, INDIA, 17TH-20TH CENTURIES ink on paper, of horizontal rectangular format, mostly comprising parts of Jain sutras, the devanagari script mostly in black, some with punctuation and significant phrases in red ink 12.5 x 27cm average size (a lot)
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Provenance: Private collection, Northern England £120-150
212 AN ILLUMINATED FOLIO FROM A HINDU MANUSCRIPT, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY ink, gouache and gold on paper, the horizontal leaf with eleven lines of devanagari script in red and black ink, the central illustration depicting a couple seated under a tree with attendants, framed 16 x 31.5cm (folio, inside mount)
215 A FOLIO OF NASTALIQ CALLIGRAPHY, MUGHAL, INDIA, CIRCA 1800 ink with gouache on paper, laid on card, written diagonally, floral decoration and borders, mounted 20.5 x 12.3cm (main panel)
Provenance: Formerly in a German private collection
Provenance: Formerly in a German private collection
£250-350
£200-300
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