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indian manuscript paintings from the 16th-18th century

[arthistoryanimalia]

#FrogFriday 🐸:

A Lake with Frogs

Mewar, North India, c.1720

Gouache heightened with gold on paper

Painting 7½ x 7 in. (19 x 17.6 cm); folio 10¼ x 8½ in. (26 x 21.6 cm)

Via Christie’s

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Researching composite horse Mughal miniatures

[smsomah]

Mughal miniature from the eighteenth century. Central Museum of Lahore, Pakistan

[robert-hadley]

A RARE IMPERIAL MUGHAL PASHMINA CARPET. NORTHERN INDIA, CIRCA 1650

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Manohar (active ca. 1582–1624) "Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album Codice India Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper H. 15 3/8 in. (39 cm)x000D W. 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[weepingwidar]

Rabia S. Akhtar (Pakistani, 1992) - Dumb Canes (Enchanted Song) (2024)

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Rabia S. Akhtar (Pakistani, 1992), Dumb Canes (Enchanted Song), 2024. Gouache on Wasli paper, 20 x 15 in.

[kaalbela]

Frescos in Amber Palace in Jaipur, photographed by Tess Newall.

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Unknown illuminated manuscript, single leaf of dancing girls Rajput Dynasty Mughal, Rajput This painting from Walters manuscript leaf W.710, which represents a mixture of Mughal and Rajput styles, depicts 2 Indian girls dancing. It is attributable to the 12th century AH/AD 18th. Brown and gold border.

[mughalmoods]

artist unknown, animals and birds, 17th century gold and color on paper, 16.8 x 8.6 cm national museum of asian art, gift of charles lang freer, F1907.623

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Unknown Northern India, Himachal Pradesh, Pahari Kingdom of Nurpur A Heroine Waiting for Her Paramour: Vasakasajja Nayika, from a Nurpur Rasikapriya c. 1750 Tempera and gold paint Vasakasajja has been described as Nayika who arranges the bed for making love. She is seated on a bed of leaves by a pond, anxiously waiting for her lover. The painter has faithfully followed the poet’s description of the scene and depicted the fair-complexioned Nayika radiating against the otherwise dark surrounding, illuminating the tryst.

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Indian School, a prince begging water from women at a well, c.1720.

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Bichitr (Indian, active ca. 1610–60) Portrait of the Elephant 'Alam Guman ca. 1640 Opaque watercolor and gold on paper

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Aqa Riza (Iranian, born Meshhed, ca. 1560, active until ca. 1621) Calligrapher: Mir 'Ali Haravi (died ca. 1550) "A Youth Fallen From a Tree", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album verso: ca. 1610; recto: ca. 1530 Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

[niramish]

Detail of plants/trees/leaves from various Indian miniatures.

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Our essay by @ResObscura on how cannabis travelled from the streets of Machilipatnam to 17th-century London’s scientific circles, including the very 1st recorded description in English of a cannabis high… https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/how-the-english-found-cannabis #Happy420 #fourtwenty #420day

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Four Horses, details from a 17th century Persian manuscript.

[dogzcats]

Man's hunting coat of embroidered satin with silk, India, ca. 1610-1630

This splendid coat was made for a man at the Mughal court in the first half of the 17th century. It is embroidered in fine chain stitch on a white satin ground, with images of flowers, trees, peacocks, wild cats and deer. The area around the neck is left free of embroidery, as a separate collar or tippet, probably of fur, would have been attached. Chain-stitch embroidery of this type is associated with professional, male embroiderers of Gujarat, where they were employed to embroider fine hangings and garments for the Mughal court, as well as for export to the West.

via Victoria & Albert Museum