Sothebys: Oriental Manuscripts And Miniatures, SHANGRI,

Auction Details

Auction Date
July 15, 1970 - July 15, 1970
Page Size: 465 items in 5 pages
Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
101 PRATAP SINGH OF JAIPUR Jaipur

USD - 12.00
102 THE HOLI FESTIVAL Jaipur

USD - 28.00
103 GAURI RAGINI

USD - 38.00
104 TODI RAGINI a lady playing the vina to two deer in an open field Jaipur

1840

USD - 48.00
105 SIX LEAVES FROM A MANUSCRIPT Rajasthan or Western India

USD - 12.00
106 SIVA AND PARVATI Gujerat

1820-30

USD - 33.00
107 Two RULERS IN DISCUSSION Rajasthan

USD - 132.00
108 A QUEEN WATCHING A PRINCE Rajasthan

USD - 115.00
109 A PROCESSION OF CHRISTIAN PRIESTS Rajasthan

USD - 168.00
110 TWO HOLY MEN Rajasthan

USD - 24.00
111 RADHA ON A SWING Rajasthan

USD - 28.00
112 SIVA AND PARVATI Rajasthan

USD - 19.00
113 BHAIRAVA RAGINI Rajasthan

USD - 67.00
114 RADHA AND KRISHNA Rajasthan

USD - 67.00
115 A PALACE seen from a high view-point Rajasthan

USD - 33.00
116 A SLEEPING GIRL Rajasthan

USD - 67.00
117 AN OLD WOMAN taking a young girl into her confidence Rajasthan

USD - 19.00
118 FOURTEEN LEAVES FROM A MANUSCRIPT Rajasthan

USD - 43.00
119 TEN MINIATURES Rajasthan

USD - 28.00
120 FOURTEEN LEAVES FROM A MANUSCRIPT

USD - 36.00
121 A GIRL raising her arms above her head Rajasthan

USD - 48.00
122 TODI RAGINI: a girl playing the vina to deer

USD - 24.00
122A RADHA AND KRISHNA embracing in a grove

USD - 76.00
123 REPRESENTATIONS OF MOSQUES Rajasthan

USD - 76.00
124 A LEAF FROM A JAIN MANUSCRIPT Western India

c. 1500

USD - 91.00
125 A LEAF FROM A JAIN MANUSCRIPT Western India

c. 1500

USD - 76.00
126 A LEAF FROM A JAIN MANUSCRIPT Western India

c. 1500

USD - 36.00
127 THREE LEAVES FROM A JAIN MANUSCRIPT Western India

c. 1500

USD - 144.00
128 GARUDA WITH VISHNU Western India

USD - 48.00
129 THE INFANT KRISHNA Western India

USD - 43.00
130 VISHNU AND LAKSHMI Western India

USD - 36.00
131 THE HINDU TRIAD Western India

USD - 52.00
132 AN ALBUM OF FIFTY INDIAN WATERCOLOUR DRAWINGS OF FLOWERS AND FRUIT Calcutta

USD - 720.00
133 A LARGE COCKATOO Calcutta

USD - 52.00
134 A SPECIES OF CUCKOO Calcutta

c. 1825

USD - 33.00
135 A RHINOCEROS

USD - 28.00
136 A YOUNG LADY Delhi

USD - 72.00
137 A EUROPEAN LADY Lucknow

c. 1840

USD - 72.00
138 SHUJA UD-DAULA Lucknow

c. 1800

USD - 33.00
139 MICA PAINTINGS India

c. 1363

USD - 28.00
140 MICA PAINTINGS

USD - 9.00
141 MICA PAINTINGS Benares

c. 1860]

USD - 33.00
142 MICA PAINTINGS South India

c. 1850

USD - 19.00
143 PAINTINGS ON IVORY India

c. 1870

USD - 28.00
144 PAINTINGS ON IVORY Delhi

c. 1860

USD - 52.00
145 NINETEEN COLOURED DRAWINGS South India

c. 1880

USD - 16.00
146 THIRTY-THREE COLOURED DRAWINGS South India

c. 1880

USD - 52.00
147 A squirrel holding a mango India

USD - 24.00
148 A deer; a parrot; an elephant; an antelope; three birds India

USD - 24.00
149 HINDOLA RAGA

USD - 48.00
150 Hanuman before Rama and Sita who sit on a stool

USD - 24.00
151 Two GIRLS talking by a pavilion on a terrace

USD - 38.00
152 A HOLY MAN ARRIVING at a household Kashmir

USD - 52.00
153 ANGELS DESCENDING to a prophet seated beneath a tree Kashmir

USD - 24.00
154 A GIRL AT A WINDOW talking to a man outside Kashmir

USD - 72.00
155 FIVE ILLUSTRATIONS to a romance involving a king and a girl Kashmir

USD - 57.00
156 A DYING MAN watched over by a lady Kashmir

USD - 43.00
157 A lady seated on a terrace by moonlight Delhi

USD - 19.00
158 FOUR PALM-LEAF MANUSCRIPT LEAVES Orissa

USD - 60.00
159 Two PANELS painted and lacquered with scenes of a prince out hawking on horseback Deccani

USD - 33.00
160 PAINTED LACQUER PANEL

USD - 33.00
161 THE DWELLING OF THE SAGE SUTIKSHNA

USD - 768.00
162 RAMA AND SITA AND LAKSHMANA TAKING THEIR LEAVE

USD - 672.00
163 RAMA AND SITA AND LAKSHMANA TRAVELLING through the forest

USD - 720.00
164 LAKSHMANA ARRIVING AT A HERMITAGE BY A LAKE

USD - 960.00
165 JATAYU THE KING OF THE VULTURES

USD - 1,200.00
166 RAMA INSTRUCTS LAKSHMANA AND SITA

USD - 528.00
167 RAMA IN BATTLE WITH KHARA'S DEMONS

USD - 480.00
168 KHARA'S DEMONS ARE ROUTED BY RAMA

USD - 432.00
169 RAMA AND LAKSHMANA APPROACHING THE STRONGHOLD OF SUGRIVA

USD - 1,248.00
170 SEVEN OF SUGRIVA'S MONKEY-COUNSELLORS RETREATING

USD - 912.00
171 SUGRIVA AND THREE OF HIS COUNSELLORS MEET RAMA AND LAKSHMANA

USD - 720.00
172 HANUMAN KINDLING A FIRE FOR SUGRIVA AND RAMA TO WORSHIP

USD - 768.00
173 SUGRIVA ENTERING A CAVE IN A ROCKY HILLSIDE

USD - 768.00
174 SUGRIVA IMPLORING RAMA TO HELP HIM

USD - 480.00
175 RAMA KICKS AWAY THE CORPSE OF THE DEMON DUNDUBHI

USD - 768.00
176 RAMA PIERCES THE SEVEN SAL TREES WITH A SINGLE ARROW

USD - 672.00
177 THE SEVEN SAL TREES FALL DOWN

USD - 672.00
178 SUGRIVA LEADING RAMA AND LAKSHMANA

USD - 1,152.00
179 BALI AND SUGRIVA FIGHTING OUTSIDE KISHKINDA

USD - 480.00
180 TARA AND A GROUP OF BALI'S WIVES

USD - 1,152.00
181 RAVANA'S DEMON FORCES MAKING A SORTIE

USD - 480.00
182 THE DEMON LEADER DHUMRAKSHA RIDING IN A CHARIOT

USD - 768.00
183 DHUMRAKSHA ENGAGES WITH THE MONKEY FORCES

USD - 960.00
184 RADHA AND KRISHNA CONVERSING

USD - 24.00
185 A PAHARI RAJA SMOKING

USD - 62.00
186 THE INFANT KRISHNA

USD - 19.00
187 KRISHNA ENTHRONED Mandi

USD - 12.00
188 THREE DEMONS with a warrior visiting a king who sits in a pavilion holding a drawn sword Mandi

USD - 12.00
189 A prince and his lady lying on a couch at night

USD - 48.00
190 A PRINCE seated on a terrace with three ladies

USD - 36.00
191 A DOMESTIC SCENE where a mother and child sit near a fire

USD - 19.00
192 A CHILD RIDING a large blue horse with red saddlecloth and bridle

USD - 33.00
193 A PAHARI PRINCE seated smoking a hookah

USD - 14.00
194 A LADY WALKING WITH A PEACOCK

1830

USD - 132.00
195 Two GIRLS TALKING IN A COURTYARD

USD - 84.00
196 SIVA AND PARVATI seated together on a tiger-skin on a rocky

USD - 43.00
197 RADHA AND KRISHNA bathing in the Jumna

USD - 72.00
198 RADHA KNEELING before Krishna who sits in a throne holding a lotus flower

USD - 96.00
199 A LADY with a confidante who talks to her as she sits on a stool

USD - 33.00
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