Maithili painting from Nepal

Lot 1838 limit € 20

2 x mixed media on rice paper (Daphne mezaneum), including 1 x traditional representation with 4 figures and 1 elephant, 1 x woman with a red coat next to various fruits and flowers, each in front of black cardboard behind glass in the frame, sheet with structure and signs of age (among others 1 x tear at the upper edge), with frame each approx. 51 x 61 cm, sheet each approx. 34 x 48 cm, Maithili art is one of the numerous artistic and handicraft traditions of Nepal, which women of the Maithili culture have cultivated for thousands of years the art of painting and pass on the techniques and motifs to their daughters, the colourful, imaginative depictions relate, among other things, to the seasons, religious holidays and mythology