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Malav Ragini
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.6 x 14.7 cm (7 11/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2376
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: Title at top, in Devanagari, now effaced. Reverse: in Devanagari: "Very great is the bliss of the union of him and her, such as has never been heard of: This union is full and perfect joy, God brought it about by design." Also, fragment of a Persian inscription.
Provenance1913, purchased in Delhi, 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 to the MFA by Denman Waldo Ross. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)