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Lot 56 Details
Works on Paper: Apparao Art for Education. 15-28 September 2023
The Indivisible...
Mixed media on paper
22.5 x 22.5 in
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Lot 55 Details
The Celebration: ...
Lot 67 Details
G. C. A. C. 13 II
Silkscreen on paper
30 x 22 in
Lot 14 Details
Select Indian Antiquities & Collectibles. 18 Apr-1 May 2013
Wooden Carved Panel
Wood20th Century...
View Dimensions This is an exquisitely carved wooden panel from Kerala. It is part of a running frieze that depicts a very unique subject. A barren (childless) lady, probably a queen, along with her husband takes advice from a learned sage who helps them by preparing a potent medicine and offers it to the lady. The lady, after gratefully accepting and consuming the potion, begets a child. The carving on this panel being a running narrative makes it all the more unique and interesting, as a progressive picture enfolds before us. A figure showed repeatedly gives a clear understanding of the subject. Beginning from the left side of this panel, the first four figures are those of the old, wise, bearded sage. He is shown sitting with a pestle and preparing the herbal potion and thereafter giving it to the lady in her hand. The eighth figure is her husband who folds his hands in veneration as he is grateful to the sage. The lady consumes the medicine and thereafter she is portrayed nine times, each successive figure showing her with a larger belly, beautifully ending with a full-term pregnancy. Thereafter, she is shown in a semi-reclining position as she goes into labour. Helped by a mid-wife, she gives birth to a child. Interestingly, her husband bows before her as a gesture of his gratefulness to her for having borne him a child to be his heir. This gesture of the man prompts us to assume that he was a king, in need of an heir. However, the specific entities cannot be identified. The panel ends with the mid-wife bathing the child in warm water brought in pots, and finally the mother holding the baby. It is a wonderful narrative depicting motherhood and the joys that go with it. Besides, it was a painstaking job for a clever artisan to portray the lady nine times as she goes into pregnancy, each time with a more prominent belly. The artisan has also maintained perfect proportions of each figure within a limited space, and has done a commendable job of creating several figures within this length of wood.
Lot 7 Details
Indian Period Jewelry. 11-30 April 2013
A MAGNIFICIENT...
This beautiful pair of rectangular...
0 x 0 in
Lot 3 Details
Jewels from South India. 12 Apr-1 May 2014
A GEMSET...
Each designed as a hemisphere, kundan-set ...
View Dimensions Gross Weight: 62.850 gramsCirca: 1940'sDimensions: 2.5 x 1.1 inch (H x W)
Lot 10 Details
Exhibition of Jewels, Objects and Silver. 10-31 October 2015
A PAIR OF GEMSET ...
Each designed as a drop-shaped plaque,...
Lot 23 Details
An Exhibition of Colombian and Zambian Emerald ... 18 Jul-1 Aug 2014
AN EMERALD AND...
Centering on rectangular shaped emeralds, ...
View Dimensions Emerald: 14.9 carats Diamond: 1.03 carats Gold: 9.65 grams (18 kt)
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