Description
Yogini in the rain, North India, Rajasthan, probably Kotah, late 19th century Gouache, gold and silver on cardboard depicting a richly adorned yogini, bare-chested and wearing a yellow pleated skirt, seated cross-legged on a terrace surrounded by water from which several lotuses emerge under the rain of a stormy sky crossed by two orange lightning bolts. The scene is surrounded by a thin yellow border, a frieze of silver floral scrolls on a black background and a red band. Page size: 31.7 x 23.6 cm; painting size: 24.2 x 15.8 cm Minor polychromy defects. Provenance: Bonham's, Edinburgh, March 22, 2017, lot 65. A Yogini under the Rain, Rajasthan, probably Kotah, Late 19th century
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Yogini in the rain, North India, Rajasthan, probably Kotah, late 19th century Gouache, gold and silver on cardboard depicting a richly adorned yogini, bare-chested and wearing a yellow pleated skirt, seated cross-legged on a terrace surrounded by water from which several lotuses emerge under the rain of a stormy sky crossed by two orange lightning bolts. The scene is surrounded by a thin yellow border, a frieze of silver floral scrolls on a black background and a red band. Page size: 31.7 x 23.6 cm; painting size: 24.2 x 15.8 cm Minor polychromy defects. Provenance: Bonham's, Edinburgh, March 22, 2017, lot 65. A Yogini under the Rain, Rajasthan, probably Kotah, Late 19th century
