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Deer fighting

Indian, Pahari
About 1700
Object Place: Nurpur, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 14.7 x 10.2 cm (5 13/16 x 4 in.)
Image: 13.4 x 9.1 cm (5 1/4 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2763
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsReverse: at bottom, in Devnagari?, 2.5 line inscription, bala 57 , deer (pl).
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)