Asavari Ragini
A Bhil standing in a landscape with snakes

Awadh, circa 1770 A.D.

Gouache on paper with gold

191 by 120 mm., excluding gilt-scroll border, calligraphy on the reverse

Provenance

Maggs Brothers, 1970s [date 5.vii.77 on reverse in pencil]
Private collection, Hertfordshire, 1970s-

The hill at the top shows Deccani influence but the main elements of the style and the border decoration is eighteenth century Faizabad or Lucknow.