id:			314219
accession number:	2018.93
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.93
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:59.618000

Madhava Plays his Vina before Five Women Drawing Water from a Well, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala, c. 1720. India, Bilaspur. Gum tempera and gold on paper; image: 19.1 x 28.6 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.); page: 21.7 x 30.9 cm (8 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.93

title:				Madhava Plays his Vina before Five Women Drawing Water from a Well, from a Madhavanala Kamakandala
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creation date:			c. 1720
creation date earliest:		1710
creation date latest:		1730
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creditline:			Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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culture:	India, Bilaspur
technique:	gum tempera and gold on paper
department:	Indian and Southeast Asian Art
collection:	Indian Art
type:		Painting
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measurements: Image: 19.1 x 28.6 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in.); Page: 21.7 x 30.9 cm (8 9/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
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	inscription:	akri number: 3; four lines of Takri script; (in English) Roman numeral: X -K. Iswari Singh of Sirmur; number 188. caupai. calio kataka kāmavatī desā. dharati dhase bhāra sahe na sesā. jā dīna gayī to peyano kāī. dāsa kayi digapatī baraharaī. tarī kī khurī so kheī udāī. dharatī suraga eka ho jāī. jīha rājā ki sima jaī. le gaja danda milāī so āī. mādhavanala āge kar līā. jīhī eha prema pasarā kiyā. dohā. rājā bīkramaseṃna valī uhane sāna bajāe. kāmavatī ke nīkata īha nadī taṭa utari jvāe.
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PROVENANCE

	Catherine Glynn Benkaim and Barbara Timmer, Beverly Hills, CA, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?-2018
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2018-
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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.93/2018.93_print.jpg
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