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Walters Ms. W.876, Single leaf of Nayaka and attendants in leafy bowersBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Single leaf of Nayaka and attendants in leafy bowers
Text title
Nayaka and attendants in leafy bowers
Abstract
This painting, dating to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE, depicts three women seated within two leafy bowers. The Nayaka (female lover or heroine) sits alone, while her two female companions, known as sakhis, converse in the other bower. The painting may represent Utka nayaka, a classification for heroines who are awaiting or yearning for their lovers. Often, they are shown on a bed of flowers or leaves that they have prepared in expectation of meeting their lovers. In the landscape are animals engaged in various activities. An outcrop of rocks in the distance forms a horizon, above which is a blue sky streaked with light gray or white washes to suggest a thin layer of high clouds.
Language:
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Support material
Paper
Mounted on pasteboard
Extent
Foliation: Not applicable
Dimensions
22.0 cm wide by 30.0 cm high
Layout
Contents:
fols. W.876a - W.876b:Decoration:
fol. W.876a:
fol. W.876b:
Acquisition
Gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2001
Bibliography
Pal, Pratapaditya. Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Foundation. (London: Phillip Wilson, 2001), 167.
Contributors
Principal cataloger: Gacek, Adam
Catalogers: Landau, Amy; Smith, Sita
Editor: Bockrath, Diane
Conservators: Jewell, Stephanie; Quandt, Abigail
Contributors: Barrera, Christina; Emery, Doug; Herbert, Lynley; Noel, William; Simpson, Shreve; Tabritha, Ariel; Toth, Michael B.; Valle, Chiara
Publisher
The Walters Art Museum
License
Licensed for use under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Access Rights, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode. It is requested that copies of any published articles based on the information in this data set be sent to the curator of manuscripts, The Walters Art Museum, 600 North Charles Street, Baltimore MD 21201.
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