TWO POLYCHROME MINIATURE PAINTINGS

Description:

India, Rajasthan, probably Bikaner, 18th/19th c.
22,8 x 16/ 33 x 21,8 cm
Polychrome gouaches, one with gold highlights. Depictions from the life of Krishna with the depiction of Krishna as a divine cowherd. - The other depicting Krishna with gopis in front of a palace architecture.
From an important private collection in northern Germany, mainly collected in India from the early 1950s to the 1980s - One with minor damages due to age, the other with wear, especially in the area of the margins