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Desakhaya Ragini
Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.4 x 15 cm (7 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2379
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: title in Devanagari, now effaced. Reverse: in Devanagari: "An accomplished and clever young woman, fragrant of body, in all its parts, Fixing her heart upon her lord, such a lady is Desakh." Also, Persian inscriptions.
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)