Vasanti Ragini

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Kulu (made)

A Ragamala painting in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting two girls gathering flowers from trees and putting them in baskets. Illustration to the musical mode, vasanti ragini. Inscribed in Takri on the top border.

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Categories	Paintings Gardens & Gardening Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project
Object type	Painting
Title	Vasanti Ragini (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour on paper Paper Opaque Watercolour Paint Paper Painted Painted
Brief description	Painting, Ragamala, vasanti ragini, opaque watercolour on paper, Kulu, ca. 1700-1710
Physical description	A Ragamala painting in opaque watercolour on paper, depicting two girls gathering flowers from trees and putting them in baskets. Illustration to the musical mode, vasanti ragini. Inscribed in Takri on the top border.
Dimensions	Height: 205mm (maximum) Width: 208mm (maximum) Image within innermost painted border height: 152mm (maximum) Image within innermost painted border width: 155mm 24/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape
Content description	Two girls gathering flowers from trees and putting them in baskets. Illustration to the musical mode, vasanti ragini.
Style	Kulu
Marks and inscriptions	(Inscribed in Takri on the top border.) Translation 'Vasanti Ragini wife of Hindola, third sheet' Transliteration 'vasanti ragini hindoleda charaja tisra patra'
Object history	From the Sir William Rothenstein collection (residuary).
Subjects depicted	Music Ragini Flowers Trees
Bibliographic reference	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. 332, cat. no. 13 x
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.18-1954

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O432921/vasanti-ragini-painting-unknown/

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