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(Islamic & Indian Art, 16th April 2021) AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: THE KEDAR RAGINI Marwar school, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 18th - early 19th century AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A RAGAMALA SERIES: THE KEDAR RAGINI PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE AMERICAN COLLECTION Marwar school, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 18th - early 19th century Opaque pigments heightened with gold and silver on paper, the vertical composition depicting the musical mode of Kedar Ragini, part of the Shri Raga, in the middle ground a female musician holding a rudra vina (stick zither) on her left shoulder, talking to two naked Shaivite sadhus seated on tiger skins in front of a hut, their blue-hued bodies covered in ashes and on their forehead the Shaivite mark of the tripundra, each one wearing a long rudraksha beads rosary necklace and holding another one in their hands, puja vessels in front of them next to a brazier, at the top two lines of silver ink Devanagari script, the composition set within black, yellow and white rules and bright red borders, the recto with later pencil notes, 25cm x 17cm. (Qty: 1) 25cm x 17cm