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Tibetan Yak with Vignettes of Animals
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A large Tibetan yak stands in profile and faces to the left. Based on the small horns that curve upright, the yak is female. It wears a bright red muzzle. The back right leg is unfinished. The painting is pasted onto a larger sheet of paper. In the corners of this larger sheet of paper are small vignettes that feature different animals among flowers and against a gold background are pasted onto the painting. Clockwise from the top left is: a ram; two long-haired goats; a nilgai, an antelope indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and a ram; and a type of goat or ram with long upright horns. Mughal Style.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Stuart Cary Welch Jr.
Title: Tibetan Yak with Vignettes of Animals
Description:
A large Tibetan yak stands in profile and faces to the left.
Based on the small horns that curve upright, the yak is female.
It wears a bright red muzzle.
The back right leg is unfinished.
The painting is pasted onto a larger sheet of paper.
In the corners of this larger sheet of paper are small vignettes that feature different animals among flowers and against a gold background are pasted onto the painting.
Clockwise from the top left is: a ram; two long-haired goats; a nilgai, an antelope indigenous to the Indian subcontinent, and a ram; and a type of goat or ram with long upright horns.
Mughal Style.
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