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Flower studies based on lillies

Pahari
about 1800
Object Place: Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink and color on paper
Dimensions Overall: 19.6 x 23.5 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Image: 19.6 x 23.5 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2681
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

InscriptionsObverse: Inscription in Takri on right hand flowers which may have been added later.
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.