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Page from an album: recto, scene with a cat; verso, a spray of chrysanthemums
Mughal
Mughal period
recto, about 1600; verso, 18th or 19th century
Object Place: Northern India
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 29.5 × 20.7 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harriet Otis Cruft Fund
Accession Number17.74
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Books and manuscripts
Books and manuscripts
InscriptionsInscription in upper margin of narrative painting, added later, in Persian:
"Shabih-i Shahzada Daniyal" (picture of Prince Daniyal).
Poetic inscription in margin of chrysanthemum, in Persian:
Anam ki khakra ba nazar kimia kunand
Aya buwad ki gusha-i chashmi ga(h) kunand
Dardim nihufta bihtar tabiban-i bid-i
Bashad ki az handh an ahaibim dawa kunand
"Shabih-i Shahzada Daniyal" (picture of Prince Daniyal).
Poetic inscription in margin of chrysanthemum, in Persian:
Anam ki khakra ba nazar kimia kunand
Aya buwad ki gusha-i chashmi ga(h) kunand
Dardim nihufta bihtar tabiban-i bid-i
Bashad ki az handh an ahaibim dawa kunand
ProvenanceBy 1917, sold by Luzac & Co., London, to the MFA for £4. (Accession date: January 4, 1917)