TWO INDIAN PAINTINGS DEPICTING HINDU VAISHNAVA GODS
Jaipur School, Rajasthan, North-Western India, circa 1880 - 1920

Opaque pigments heightened in gold on wove paper, comprising a vertical composition depicting young Krishna in an audience with a ruler, set within ochre yellow and white rules, and black and red borders, 26cm x 19cm; and a small horizontal composition with Anantashayana Vishnu sleeping on the mythological snake Shesa floating on the cosmic ocean, a symbolic representation of the cosmic balance of finity within infinity, set within black and red rules, and ochre yellow and orange borders, 11.5cm x 16cm.