id: 170828
accession number: 2013.319
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A floral fantasy of animals and birds (Waq-waq), early 1600s. Mughal India. Gum tempera and gold on paper; page: 37.6 x 26.6 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.319
title: A floral fantasy of animals and birds (Waq-waq)
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creation date: early 1600s
creation date earliest: 1600
creation date latest: 1625
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creditline: Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
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culture: Mughal India
technique: Gum tempera and gold on paper
department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection: Indian Art
type: Painting
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measurements: Page: 37.6 x 26.6 cm (14 13/16 x 10 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Art and Stories from Mughal India
opening date: 2016-07-31T04:00:00
Art and Stories from Mughal India. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).
title: Nature Supernatural (Indian Painting rotation)
opening date: 2023-09-22T04:00:00
Nature Supernatural (Indian Painting rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 22, 2023-March 3, 2024).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'A Flower From Every Meadow. Asia House Gallery, New York, NY; Center for Asian Art and Culture, San Francisco, CA; Albright-Know Gallery of Art, Buffalo, NY (1973)', 'opening_date': '1973-01-01T05:00:00Z'}
* {'description': 'Main Asian Rotation (Gallery 245). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 31, 2013-June 30, 2014).', 'opening_date': '2013-12-31T05:00:00Z'}
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PROVENANCE
Motichand Khajanchi, Bikaner, India, to Ralph Benkaim
date: ?–December 1967
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Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim Collection
date: December 1967–2013
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2013–
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Fraser, Marcus. Deccan and Mughal Paintings: The Collection of Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Ralph Benkaim. Volume 2. England: Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, 2013.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: cat. no. 55, pp. 82-89.
url: http://library.clevelandart.org/benkaim-collection
India 1966: A Pictorial Diary Depicting Indian Birds and Animals [= India 1966: agenda illustre sur les oiseaux et animaux l'Inde = India 1966: ein Bildkalender indischer Vögel und Tiere]. New Delhi: Government of India, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: back cover.
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Welch, Stuart Cary, and Mark Zebrowski. A Flower from Every Meadow: Indian Paintings from American Collections. New York: Asia Society; distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1973.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: no. 60, frontispiece
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The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors (May 1973)
page number: Reproduced: p. 48.
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Archives of Asian Art 64, no. 2 (2014): p. 227.
page number: Reproduced: p. 227, fig. 13.
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Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.
page number: Reproduced: cat. no. 28, Figure 4.75; Mentioned: pp. 220-22, 319.
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Okada, Amina. Les Animaux Magiques dans la Peinture Indienne. [Paris] : Circonflexe, 2017.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 7, 10
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Lal, Ruby. Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan. New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: color plate after p. 142
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Singh, Kavita, editor. Scent Upon a Southern Breeze: The Synaesthetic Arts of the Deccan. Mumbai, India: Marg Foundation, 2018.
page number: Reproduced: fig. 10, p. 101, and back cover
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"Permanent Collection Installations: Nature Supernatural." Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 4 (2023): 18-19.
page number: Reproduced: P. 18; Mentioned: P. 19.
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IMAGES
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