A folio from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes), Saranga Ragini, Sub-Imperial Mughal, circa 1610-20, opaque pigments on paper, inscribed above the painting with 3 lines of Sanskrit couplets in nagari script, uncoloured border with black, gold, white and blue rules, miniature 14.3 x 10.5 cm; folio: 21.5 x15.8 cm.Provenance: Spink & Sons 1967The ragamala series to which this page belonged relates both in date and style to the Laud Ragamala in the Bodleian Library, Oxford (see H.Stooke, K.Khandalavala, The Laud Ragamala, Oxford 1953), and to the Manley Ragamala, illustrated in K.Ebeling, Ragamala Painting, Basel 1973, pp.160-162. Like those manuscripts, this set must have been produced for an educated Hindu.Folio with losses to edges, reverse with inscription in Persian, minor losses to paintPlease refer to department for condition report