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A Rajput Royal Riding in a Palanquin
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A Rajput prince or emperor sits cross-legged inside a palanquin. He holds up a circle of beads in his right hand. The palanquin is flanked and carried by two male attendants. The dabs of pigment serve as cues to instruct the painter on how the work should be colored. Rajput Style.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
[Unnamed art dealer working near the Red Fort Delhi] (October 24th 1953); purchase by L.C. and P. Wyman American couple; gift to Art Complex Museum 189 Alden Street Duxbury (1960s); purchase by Kathy Burton Jones [Norman Hurst] Hurst Gallery 53 Mount Auburn Street Cambridge (2004); gift to Harvard Art Museum (2009).
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Katherine Burton Jones
Title: A Rajput Royal Riding in a Palanquin
Description:
A Rajput prince or emperor sits cross-legged inside a palanquin.
He holds up a circle of beads in his right hand.
The palanquin is flanked and carried by two male attendants.
The dabs of pigment serve as cues to instruct the painter on how the work should be colored.
Rajput Style.
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