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A beautiful early 20th-century Indian devotional print depicting Goddess Saraswati, the deity traditionally associated with knowledge, music, learning and the arts.
Saraswati is portrayed seated gracefully beneath a large tree, holding and playing the veena, while a magnificent peacock rests beside her. The composition is surrounded by a picturesque natural landscape of hills, rocks and foliage, rendered in striking period colours of pink, green, blue and golden yellow.
The lower margin retains two particularly important period inscriptions:
“COPYRIGHT 1924”
“RAVI VAIBHAV F.A.L. PRESS, GHATKOPAR”
The Ravi Vaibhav F.A.L. Press is documented as an important name in the history of early Indian lithographic and oleographic devotional printing at Ghatkopar. �
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Product Details
Subject: Goddess Saraswati
Iconography: Saraswati with Veena & Peacock
Medium: Vintage colour oleograph / lithographic print
Copyright Mark: 1924
Printer: Ravi Vaibhav F.A.L. Press
Location: Ghatkopar, Bombay
Period: Early 20th Century
Theme: Hindu Devotional Art
Orientation: Portrait
Presentation: Vintage black frame
Category: Antique Indian Prints / Religious Art / Devotional Oleographs
Collector’s Highlight
What makes this piece particularly collectible is the surviving 1924 copyright inscription combined with the Ravi Vaibhav F.A.L. Press, Ghatkopar imprint. The strong period colours, old printing texture and traditional Saraswati iconography give it significant decorative and historical appeal.
The image retains the characteristic visual quality associated with early Indian colour lithographic and oleographic devotional printing.
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