A Ragini seated on a lotus throne singing while a peacock dances
Artist
Central Indian
Artist
Malwa
Dateabout 1750
Mediumwatercolor on paper
Dimensions25.2 x 17 cm (9 15/16 x 6 11/16 in.)
ClassificationsNon-Western Miniatures
Credit LineGift of Alexander H. Bullock
Terms
Object number1957.8
Label TextGuara-Mallara is depicted here as an utka nayika, a woman who expects and yearns for her lover. Seated on a throne of lotus petals, she holds high a vina, as she sings a song of her beloved. She Is thought to be the personification of all that is beautiful and charming, and is so because her love has filled her with a dazzling, alluring radiance.
The treatment of plants and landscape is typical of Central Indian painting of this period, though the foliage of the stylized and inanimate trees is traceable to the earlier Malwa convention of reducing trees to schematic ovals.
ProvenanceAlexander H. Bullock, Worcester MAOn View
Not on view
