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Gauri Ragini
Deccani
Mughal period
18th century
Object Place: Deccan, India
Medium/Technique
Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 23.2 × 15 cm (9 1/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.47
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
Books and manuscripts
Books and manuscripts
InscriptionsReverse: at bottom, in gurmukhi script (Punjabi, different from Takri): 15 (of series) rag gauri. Also, a 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. Qamrud-din was possibly governor of Punjab
ProvenanceBy 1915, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: January 7, 1915)