A DEVOTIONAL SCENE AT A SHRI NATHJI SHRINE
Possibly Nathdwara, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 18th - 19th century

Opaque pigments heightened in silver and gold on wove paper, the vertical composition depicting a heavily bejewelled Rajput ruler and consort paying homage to a shrine of Shri Nathji, the golden murti comfortably resting against a large embroidered bolster, both the ruler and the consort wearing diaphanous ochre yellow-coloured cloths and their forehead marked with the Vaishnava Urdhva Pundra, the three vertical lines reminders of the Vedic scriptures, at the top a rectangular cartouche with white-ink Devanagari script against an ochre yellow ground, the composition set within black and white rules and green and red borders, mounted, glazed and framed, 34cm x 25cm excluding the frame.