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Design for a sword handle

Pahari
19th century
Object Place: Garhwal or Lahore, Punjab, Northern India or Pakistan

Medium/Technique Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions Overall: 17.8 x 11.1 cm (7 x 4 3/8 in.)
Image: 17.8 x 11.1 cm (7 x 4 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2692
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors

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 252.