Unknown artist
Raja Mandhata as a musical mode
ca. 1690
- Medium
- Opaque watercolor on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.3 × 20.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-127694
The musical mode Himal is embodied as Raja Mandhata, this manuscript’s patron. Shown splendidly dressed and seated in a grove with two birds perched on his hand, the king is an emblem of refinement.
Provenance
Purchase from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
Registry history
- ca. 1690 — Recorded in the collection of National Museum of Asian Art
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