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Design for a knife handle

Indian
early 19th century
Object Place: possibly Jaipur, Rajasthan, Northern India

Medium/Technique Opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Dimensions Overall: 16.3 x 11 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Image: 16.3 x 11 cm (6 7/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2694
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings

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.