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THB15th C Jain Gilded Manuscript Page w/ Tirthankaras
Lot 54a
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South Asia, western India, Gujerat region, ca. 15th century CE. A stunning Jain manuscript page with ten Tirthankaras bordering a Jain religious text, perhaps from a Kalpasutra, on fine beige-hued paper and embellished with a lustrous 15 karat gold gilding, black ink, and pigments in hues of crimson and cobalt. A Tirthankara, literally meaning "ford-maker" in Sanskrit, is a spiritual teacher, savior, founder of the tirtha, and conqueror of the samsara (cycle of death and rebirth) who made a path for others to follow. The page presents on one side with seven lines of Jain text beside a decorative rectangle of black ink drawings skillfully gilded and painted with blue and red pigments. This beautiful image features a stylized skyline-like design above ten Tirthankaras sitting cross-legged and organized in three rows. Three equally-spaced red circles additionally adorn the page. Size: 9.875" W x 4.25" H (25.1 cm x 10.8 cm); gilding quality: 62.5% (equiavalent to 15 K)
Alternatively, the other side of this ancient document presents with seven lines of Hindi script of Jain text in hues of black and vibrant red fit between two vertical red striations with a red circle at the center.
According to an essay entitled "Jain Manuscript Painting" by John Guy (Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art), "One of the identifying features of fifteenth-century Jain painting is the increasingly lavish use of applied gold. A unique illustrated Kalpasutra manuscript from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, dated ca. 1465, displays a restrained and highly effective use of gold and an intense blue sourced from lapis lazuli (1992.359). The use of both these colors had resulted from an awareness of Persian painting, which had become accessible through sultanate connections. The manuscript to which this folio belongs also introduces clear evidence that Jain patronage had extended by this time beyond Gujarat and Rajasthan into Central and Northern India. While retaining the broad conventions of the western Indian style, it displays a bold approach to color and rich ornamentation that connects the archaic western style with the emerging North Indian schools, which gained their fullest expression in the studio workshops of Delhi and surrounding regions. This legacy is seen in the court style of Malwa and other schools of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries."
Provenance: ex-Estate of Eldert Bontekoe, Pegasi Numismatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, acquired before 2000
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#158256Single page from a larger manuscript. Miniscule tearing to some small areas of peripheries. Light staining commensurate with age. Otherwise, excellent with remarkable remaining pigment.Condition
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