Lot 261: TODI RAGINI

TODI RAGINI
BIKANER, CIRCA 1680
From a Ragamala series, gouache heightened with gold on paper, a disconsolate maiden, finely dressed in a transparent white robe over gold brocade pyjamas, pines for her lover, her handmaiden stands beside her and before them a yogini plays the vina, she and her companion dressed in pink and orange, in the foreground stand a black buck and a pair of deer and heron and beyond them the sea with a raft with a purple and orange canopy, a pink palace stands on the hill-top to the left of the composition, between gold and turquoise borders and laid down on an ivory album leaf with gold floral cartouches, mounted, framed and glazed
10 x 6 5/8in. (25.4 x 16.5cm.)

The Property of a Gentleman, Christie's London, 5 May 1977, lot 97

For a similar composition depicting Todi Ragini see Toby Falk and Mildred Archer, Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library , London, 1981, no. 505VI, p. 529. That example is attributed to Bikaner, circa 1650.

For further discussion on the black buck see lot 278.