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Lot 151

Sale 6088 - Asian Arts
Oct 14, 2021 6:00AM ET
Live / Philadelphia
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$1,000 - 1,500
Price Realized
$8,190
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Three Indian miniatures depicting Vishnu and a scene possibly from the Ramayana 毗湿奴袖珍画像三幅 Punjab Hills, 18th-19th century ????? ???????

Opaque watercolor (two with gold), on paper; The first depicting blue-skinned, four-armed Vishnu with consort, astride Garuda, verso with a sketch of two ladies with male kneeling in an interior as a crescent moon rises; the second a lion attacking demons as a seated Devi watches, the last with Vishnu asleep on the serpent Ananta, as Lakshmi massages his foot, Brahma issuing forth from a lotus blossom from Vishnu's navel, as various deities worship the god; framed, matted, and glazed.

H: 5 3/8 in.; W: 6 7/8 in. (sight, largest)

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