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Chrysanthemum
Pahari
Mughal period
18th century
Object Place: Garhwal, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Ink and color on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 20.2 × 10.1 cm (7 15/16 × 4 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2687
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPaintings
Books and manuscripts
Books and manuscripts
InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devanagari - guldaudi ki thaini- branch/twig of chrysanthemum.
ProvenanceAbout 1910, acquired from Balak Ram Sah of Garhwal (Srinagar), great grandson of Mola Ram, by Ananda Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947) [1]; by 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 251.
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 251.