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Gujari Ragini

Indian, Pahari
about 1700–10
Object Place: Jammu area, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor, gold and silver on paper
Dimensions Image only 15.8 x 15.7 cm (6 1/4 x 6 3/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.3199
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

InscriptionsObverse: in top margin, in Gurmukhi(?), "Gujari Ragini, wife of Dipaka (Gujari ragini dipakedi bharaja)"

Reverse: number, possibly 34; in Takri: Gujari Ragini Dipak.
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)