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Design for a sword handle
Indian, Pahari
about 1800 or slightly earlier
Object Place: Possibly Lahore, Punjab plains, Northern India or Pakistan
Medium/Technique
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 17.7 x 13.7 cm (6 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Image: 17.7 x 13.7 cm (6 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Image: 17.7 x 13.7 cm (6 15/16 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2693
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
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.
Notes:
[1] See Coomaraswamy, Catalogue of the Indian Collections in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1926, Part V, page 252.