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Gunakari Ragini
Indian, Central Indian
about 1640–50
Object Place: Orchha, India, Central India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 19.8 x 14.7 cm (7 13/16 x 5 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
Ross-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession Number17.2377
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CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
InscriptionsObverse: at top, title in Devanagari, now effaced. Reverse: in Devanagari: "Blooming like a flower herself, she gathers blossoms with her heart full of gladness, For the coming of her Lord Malkaus, she duly prepares for bed." 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)