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744 - Illustrated manuscript of a Kāmaśāstra text. [Nepal? 19th–early 20th century] Obl. leporello, 10 x 19.5 cm: 19 folios comprising 26 pages of approximately 10 lines of text per page, black ink, 19 full-page paintings, black ink and gouache, yellowed paper (some small stains, tears in a few folds, some with old repairs). Bound between two black-painted wooden boards with carved decoration, one depicting an erotic scene, the other a dragon (a few traces of polychromy on the dragon). Good condition. An unusual erotic manuscript illustrated with a series of 19 paintings depicting the same nude couple in a variety of sexual positions, set against carpets and draperies whose colors and decorative patterns vary from scene to scene.
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Illustrated manuscript of a Kāmaśāstra text. [Nepal? 19th–early 20th century] Obl. leporello, 10 x 19.5 cm: 19 folios comprising 26 pages of approximately 10 lines of text per page, black ink, 19 full-page paintings, black ink and gouache, yellowed paper (some small stains, tears in a few folds, some with old repairs). Bound between two black-painted wooden boards with carved decoration, one depicting an erotic scene, the other a dragon (a few traces of polychromy on the dragon). Good condition. An unusual erotic manuscript illustrated with a series of 19 paintings depicting the same nude couple in a variety of sexual positions, set against carpets and draperies whose colors and decorative patterns vary from scene to scene.
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