Court ladies meet a yogini in the forest, Provincial Mughal style, late 1700's

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"Ladies Encountering a Yogini in a Forest. India, Provincial Mughal, late 18th Century. Depicting a group of jeweled ladies with details highlighted in gold encountering a female mendicant dressed in salmon colored robes under a densely forested setting; framed. Image: 7 7/8 x 5 1/8 in. (19.8 x 12.8 cm.)."


A yogini in her own right, Deccan, 18th c.

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"An Album Leaf of a Yogini. India, Deccan, 18th Century. The figure in profile wearing magenta and green robes and holding aloft a peacock feather whisk enclosed in a dark blue frame with gold painted foliate scrolls and mounted on a salmon and golf-flecked album page with further cream, ochre and blue borders; the reverse with calligraphic inscriptions framed by salmon, gold and dark blue borders. Folio: 17½ x 12¼ in. (44.4 x 31 cm.)."




"Holy woman," from a series of Company School watercolors, Patna, 1824

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