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SAKHI BRINGS MESSAGE
TO NAYIKA: AN
ILLUSTRATION FROM A
RASIKAPRIYA
BY ISA, BIKANER, DATED
VS 1768 = 1711 AD
Inscribed in Nagari ‘Kama...rasak
priya raj mala...samvat 1768 shravan
vadi. Gudraya uste ise mukam
vikaner’ on the reverse
Gouache on paper heightened
with gold
Image: 7.25 x 5.25 in (19 x 13.6 cm)
Folio: 10.25 x 7.5 in (26.6 x 19.2 cm)
Rs 30,00,000 ‒ 40,00,000
$ 44,780 - 59,705
NON‒EXPORTABLE
REGISTERED ANTIQUITY
PROVENANCE
The Motichand Khajanchi Collection
This painting can be compared to
a collaborative work of Ruknuddin
and Isa, illustrated in Terence
McInerney, with Steven M Kossak
and Navina Haidar,
Divine Pleasures:
Paintings from India’s Rajput Courts,
The Kronos Collections,
New York:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2016, p. 97. The present painting
bears strong resemblance to the
treatment of the foliage and is
indicative of the same hand.
Detail of inscription on reverse