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Sugharai Ragini
Indian
About 1760
Object Place: Bundi or Kota, Rajasthan, Northern India
Medium/Technique
Opaque watercolor, silver and gold on paper
Dimensions
Overall 34 x 23.7 cm (13 3/8 x 9 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John Goelet
Accession Number67.794
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia
ClassificationsPaintings
This painting belongs to a set of ragamalas (paintings of ragas or Indian musical modes) that were produced in the Rajput kingdom of Bundi or Kota in the 18th century. Because the MFA collection holds fifteen paintings from the series, it is widely known as the “Boston Ragamala." The fifteen paintings in the MFA are 66.164, 67.793–804 and 2019.717-718.
InscriptionsObverse: Top border, in Devanagari: "Sugharai, Ragini of Malkausa".
ProvenanceBy 1967, John Goelet, New York, NY (purchased in India in the 1960's); 1967, gift of Goelet to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1967)