TWO DEVOTIONAL HINDU ILLUSTRATIONS OF SHAIVA CONTENT
Jaipur School, Rajasthan, North-Western India, circa 1880 - 1920

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, comprising a large vertical composition depicting the holy family of the Hindu god Shiva portrayed seated on a tiger skin next to his consort Parvati, standing behind them on the left one of their sons, the elephant-headed god Ganesha with a fly-whisk, and on the right the three-headed Hindu god Brahma, amongst the deities a male and three female musicians playing traditional Indian musical instruments, the scene set within black and white rules, and concentric yellow, cobalt blue and bright red borders, the recto backed with a registered list from a 19th-century stock dispatching ledger, set on a white cardboard frame and mount, 30.5cm x 25cm; and another similar, depicting Lord Ganesha enthroned, flanked by his consorts, Siddhi and Riddhi, and accompanied in the foreground by his vahana, the mouse, set within black and red rules, and concentric yellow, bright red and light green borders, the recto backed with several folios of statements of telegraph cash transactions from the British Raj period, 35cm x 25cm.