id:			170880
accession number:	2013.348
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.348
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:36.840000

Court Lady Pouring Wine (recto); Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso), c. 1760; borders mid-1700s. Mughal India, probably Lucknow. Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper; page: 30.6 x 25 cm (12 1/16 x 9 13/16 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 2013.348

title:				Court Lady Pouring Wine (recto); Calligraphy of Lyrical Quatrains (verso)
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creation date:			c. 1760; borders mid-1700s
creation date earliest:		1755
creation date latest:		1775
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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, probably Lucknow
technique:	Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art - Mughal
type:		Painting
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measurements: Page: 30.6 x 25 cm (12 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
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	inscription:	verso:  Persian verses in nasta‘liq script.
Whoever set eyes on the Opening Verses of your face recited “Say He is the Only God” and breathed it out in pure sincerity.
“God has made her grow in purity and beauty,” So recited and passed by Khizr, the moment he saw the green [pubescent] sprouting around your lips.
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	inscription:	verso:  Persian verses in top horizontal border, right to left, in nasta‘liq script.
My heart became shackled to her tresses;
You have lost your head in fulfilling this desire.

Go and become entangled in her tresses.
If you see her mouth, do not say a word.
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	inscription:	verso:  Persian verses in bottom horizontal border, right to left, in nasta‘liq script.
If she asks you what you desire, say “your heart.”
Since once she knows it, one could never banish her from one’s heart.

For one cannot assure one’s heart based on her words of promise;
It is not fitting that one should lose one’s heart for naught.
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	inscription:	verso:  Persian verses in right vertical border, top to bottom, in nasta‘liq script.
From the anguished mood and state of this sorrowful heart,
Narrate down the story as you brush down her tresses [conjectural] 

Of me, in an unfit state, shackled and in chains
How I fare in that stifling prison.

If you go and seek her out in that abode
Once you find her, you should say of me, the heartbroken.
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	inscription:	verso:  Persian verses in left vertical border, bottom to top, in nasta‘liq script.
I have a heart ensnared by her tresses
Exiled in foreign lands [. . .] of her tresses

The tale of this broken-hearted soul, like disheveled hair
Bring to her ears in a well-composed manner, like well-arranged hair

Enchain her tresses in your speech
Brush her locks behind her for a while.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art and Stories from Mughal India
	opening date:   2016-07-31T04:00:00
	<i>Art and Stories from Mughal India</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 31-October 23, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Beauty in Asia</em>. Asian Civilizations Museum, Singapore (May 3-September 23, 2007).', 'opening_date': '2007-05-03T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Sir Charles Forbes, 7th Baronet [1773-1849], Bengal, London, and Scotland, by descent to his great-grandson, Colonel Sir John Forbes
	date: ?-1849
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	Colonel Sir John Stewart Forbes [1901-1984], Baronet, DSO, DL, Allargue House, Strathdon, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK, consigned to Sotheby's London for sale
	date: ?-1962
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	(Sotheby's, London, Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, lot 21)
	date: December 10, 1962
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	Ralph Benkaim [1914-2001], Beverly Hills, CA, by descent to his wife Catherine Benkaim
	date: 1962-2001
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	(Catherine Glynn Benkaim [b. 1946], Beverly Hills, CA, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2001-2013
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2013-
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CITATIONS

	Sotheby's, London. <em>Western and Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures</em>. December 10, 1962.
	page number: 	Mentioned: Lot 21
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	Krishnan, Gauri Parimoo. <em>Beauty in Asia: 200 BCE to Today</em>. Singapore: Asian Civilisations Museum, 2007.
	page number: 	Reproduced: no. 31a
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	Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. <em>Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. London: D Giles Limited, 2016
	page number: 	Reproduced:  cat. no. 85, p. 258
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