Cleveland Museum of Art
A Royal Woman in a Pavilion: Desavarari Ragini of Dipak, from a Ragamala
- Date
- c. 1695
- Medium
- gum tempera, ink, silver, and gold on paper
- Culture
- Northwestern India, Rajasthan, Rajput Kingdom of Mewar
- Department
- Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 314443
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
A sumptuous palace setting depicts the women’s quarters. In the upper register a woman approaches a bed made under a canopy on a terrace overlooking a lotus pool in the middle of which is a pleasure pavilion. An attendant holds a peacock tail feather whisk to indicate the royal status of the woman in the center; two musicians play drum and cymbals in the lower right. “Dipak” means lamp; one attendant holds a lamp; another is on a golden stand.
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- Credit line
- Purchase and partial gift from the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection; Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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