Illustration provenant d'une série de Bihari Sat Sai représentant Krishna et sa offrande de bijoux à Radha, Mewar, vers 1719 An illustration from a Bihari Sat Sai series, depicting Krishna offering jewels to Radha Mewar, circa 1719 gouache and gold on paper, yellow panel at top containing nagari text, red border 214 x 250 mm. Footnotes: Provenance Private collection, Germany. The Sat Sai of Bihari Lal, a late 17th Century poet at Amber and at the court of Shah Jahan, is in the tradition of religious texts exploring the romance of Radha and Krishna, containing couplets on love, devotion and moral lessons. The Mewar illustrated manuscript of this text, in seven hundred couplets, is dated 1719 in its colophon. See A. Topsfield, Court Painting at Udaipur, Zurich 2001, pp. 143-144. Another example appeared in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 6th October 2008, lot 390; also Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan and Southeast Asian Art, 14th September 2015, lot 107; 14th March 2016, lot 102. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing