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Walters Ms. W.904, Single leaf of a pleasure pavilionBrowse images (Browse images in a new window) | TEI in XML format
Manuscript
Single leaf of a pleasure pavilion
Text title
A pleasure pavilion
Abstract
This single leaf shows a gathering of pleasure-seeking men outside a pavilion, where a number of women sit. The painting, which dates to the middle of the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE, was executed in northern India, possibly Lucknow. Some of the awaiting women drink wine while others attend to the hookahs. In the right corner, a man in yellow dress sits with betel quids, watching two men embroiled in a dispute, one with a dagger drawn. A second pair, at the far end and close to the pavilion, seems also to be enraged enough to draw blood. The rest wait in anticipation, smoking and conversing.
Date
ca. 1163 AH / 1750 CE
Language:
No linguistic content; Not applicable
Extent
Foliation: Not applicable
Dimensions
25.1 cm wide by 33.3 cm high
Contents:
fols. W.904a - W.904b:Decoration:
fol. W.904a:
fol. W.904b:
Acquisition
Walters Art Museum, 1931, by Henry Walters bequest
Bibliography
Pal, Pratapaditya, and Hiram W. Woodward. Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. (London: Phillip Wilson, 2001), 170-171.
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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