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Todi Ragini
Indian, Deccani
18th century
Object Place: Deccan, India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 23.7 x 15.7cm (9 5/16 x 6 3/16in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.45
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsReverse: at top, in gurmukhi (Punjabi script, different from Takri):
14 pachhajadi (corruption of padshazadi=princess) todi.
Collector's seal, in Persian: qamrud-din ghulam-i muhi-ud-din, AH 1155
"Slave of muhi-ud-din." Date equivalent to circa 1742, probably date of inventory.
14 pachhajadi (corruption of padshazadi=princess) todi.
Collector's seal, in Persian: qamrud-din ghulam-i muhi-ud-din, AH 1155
"Slave of muhi-ud-din." Date equivalent to circa 1742, probably date of inventory.
ProvenanceBy 1915, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)