AN ILLUSTRATION TO A RAGAMALA SERIES: AN ASAVARI RAGINI Basohli, Pahari Hills, Northern India, early 19th century Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, the vertical composition portraying a female heroine in the wilderness, dressed in courtly attire and heavily bejewelled, seated on an elaborate wooden throne, serving a bowl to the snakes descending from the tree on the right, the quiet and solitary mood typical of the Asavari Ragini of the Malkos Raga , the scene set against an ochre background, within black rules and bright red borders, mounted on a cream cardboard frame, 28.5cm x 21.5cm including the frame.