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Designs for animal-headed knives and earpicks
Indian
18th century
Object Place: Possibly Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 12.3 x 12.5 cm (4 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Image: 12.3 x 12.5 cm (4 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Image: 12.3 x 12.5 cm (4 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2695
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsObverse: next to the two knives, one line inscriptions, in Devnagari - have been read.
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 253.
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 253.