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Walters Ms. W.904, Single leaf of a pleasure pavilion

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Shelf mark

W.904


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


Origin

India


Form

Leaf


Genre

Historical


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:
  1. Title: A pleasure pavilion

Decoration:

fol. W.904a:

  1. W.904, fol. W.904a
  2. Title: A pleasure pavilion
  3. Form: Painting

fol. W.904b:

  1. W.904, fol. W.904b
  2. Title: A pleasure pavilion (back)
  3. Form: Back

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.