A JAIN ILLUSTRATION: JAIN SHRINES WITH TIRTHANKARAS AT MOUNT KAILASH (SINHNISHDHA)
Possibly Jaipur or Amer, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 17th - 18th century

A JAIN ILLUSTRATION: JAIN SHRINES WITH TIRTHANKARAS AT MOUNT KAILASH (SINHNISHDHA)
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Possibly Jaipur or Amer, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 17th - 18th century

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting fourteen golden shrines on a sacred mountain, most probably Mount Kailash, each shrine inhabited by a Tirthankara icon, six princes standing next to a fire, possibly a reference to the first Tirthankara, Rishbhadeva, and his son, the Chakravartin Bharata, who constructed three stupas and twenty-four shrines for the Jain Tirthankaras studded with precious stones and renamed the Mount Sinhnishdha, 2ll. of black ink Devanagari script at the top of the composition against yellow ground, set within blue, yellow, and bright red borders, mounted, glazed and framed, 29cm x 23cm excluding the frame.

Dimensions: 29cm x 23cm excluding the frame