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Devi Enthroned

Pahari
Mughal period
Originally painted about 1660–70; face and some jewelry repainted about 1800
Object Place: Basohli and Kangra, Punjab Hills, Northern India

Medium/Technique Ink, color, gold and beetle wing on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 21 × 20.7 cm (8 1/4 × 8 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2793
CollectionsAsia

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)