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Devagandhari Ragini
Indian, Pahari
about 1700–10
Object Place: Bahu-Jammu, Punjab Hills, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor and silver on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 21 x 20.9cm (8 1/4 x 8 1/4in.)
Framed: 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (47.6 x 37.5 cm)
Framed: 18 3/4 x 14 3/4 in. (47.6 x 37.5 cm)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2789
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: at top, in Punjabi script, "Devagandhari Ragini, wife of Malkausa" (devgandhari ragini malkausa di bharja). Traces of an earlier, sloppier version of the same inscription appear beneath this line.
Reverse: at top, in Takri, "malkosa di bharja dua patara." Also, a much more scribbled line, which Goswamy thinks is the dealer's hand (seen also on Dipak raga from this set). In English: "Malkaus."
Reverse: at top, in Takri, "malkosa di bharja dua patara." Also, a much more scribbled line, which Goswamy thinks is the dealer's hand (seen also on Dipak raga from this set). In English: "Malkaus."
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)