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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Basohli (made)

Painting, in opaque water-colour and gold on paper, the revel, fifteen cowherd boys clad in striped trunks pelt each other with curds obtained from broken pots. The pots were broken when a demon sat on the cart which held the pots, in order to crush the baby Krishna who was asleep underneath.

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Categories	Hinduism Religion Paintings Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque water-colour and gold on paper Opaque Watercolour Gold Paper Paint Painted
Brief description	Painting, Bhagavata Purana, the revel, Guler style at Basohli, ca. 1760-1765
Physical description	Painting, in opaque water-colour and gold on paper, the revel, fifteen cowherd boys clad in striped trunks pelt each other with curds obtained from broken pots. The pots were broken when a demon sat on the cart which held the pots, in order to crush the baby Krishna who was asleep underneath.
Dimensions	With border height: 298mm Width: 340mm Height: 233mm With border width: 405mm Red border with narrow black margin and white rules.
Content description	Fifteen cowherd boys clad in striped trunks pelt each other with curds obtained from broken pots. The pots were broken when a demon sat on the cart which held the pots, in order to crush the baby Krishna who was asleep underneath.
Style	Guler
Production	Guler style at Basohli
Subjects depicted	Boys Herders Pots Demon Deity
Bibliographic references	Indian paintings from the Punjab Hills : a survey and history of Pahari miniature painting / by W. G. Archer ; foreword by Sherman E. Lee. London :Delhi: Sotheby Parke Bernet ;Oxford University Press, 1973 Number: 0856670022 p. 49, cat. no. 22 ii.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.3-1960

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Record created	July 20, 2000
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O41864/painting-unknown/

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