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Raja Sansar Chand of Kangra Smoking a Huqqa

Workshop of: Purkhu
Indian, Pahari
about 1810
Object Place: Kangra, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions Overall: 21.7 x 16 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Image: 21.7 x 16 cm (8 9/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2702
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

Marks Reverse: seal of Lahore Museum
InscriptionsObverse: on top, in Devnagari, Shri Raja Sansar Chand. Reverse: inscription in Persian, Raja sansar Chand of Kotah? in English.

Price: Rs 10
ProvenanceBy 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)