Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

India (Himachal Pradesh, possibly Basohli or Nurpur)

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This painting, which is identified as the Sanveri Ragini by the inscription on the upper border, depicts a courtly woman seated on a silver throne in a wooded landscape. The falcon perched on her left hand is an allusion to a bird’s song. The ragamala genre in the Pahari Hill region of Himachal Pradesh diverged from that in Rajasthan, with variant iconographic subjects and different compositional solutions, as evidenced in this work’s square format and intense, flat ground color.

Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper, India (Himachal Pradesh, possibly Basohli or Nurpur)

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Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper, India (Himachal Pradesh, possibly Basohli or Nurpur)
Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper, India (Himachal Pradesh, possibly Basohli or Nurpur)

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