Vasakasajja Nayika

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Mandi (made)

Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, vasakasajja nayika, the nayika, or heroine, who adorns herself and waits for her lover. She is resting on her bed with a huqqa stem in her left hand. Female attendents are surrounding her, massaging her leg and adjusting the huqqa.

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Categories	Hinduism Paintings Religion Bonita Trust Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project India Museum
Object type	Painting
Title	Vasakasajja Nayika (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Painted in opaque watercolour and gold on paper Opaque Watercolour Paper Gold Paint Painted
Brief description	Painting, vasakasajja nayika, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, Mandi, ca. 1830
Physical description	Painting, in opaque watercolour and gold on paper, vasakasajja nayika, the nayika, or heroine, who adorns herself and waits for her lover. She is resting on her bed with a huqqa stem in her left hand. Female attendents are surrounding her, massaging her leg and adjusting the huqqa.
Dimensions	Page height: 310mm Page width: 259mm Image within innermost painted borders height: 214mm Image within innermost painted borders width: 168mm (maximum) 17/07/2013 dimensions measured as part of Indian Paintings Cataloguing Project 2013; object irregular in shape.
Content description	Vasakasajja nayika, the nayika, or heroine, who adorns herself and waits for her lover. She is resting on her bed with a huqqa stem in her left hand. Female attendents are surrounding her, massaging her leg and adjusting the huqqa.
Style	Mandi
Subjects depicted	Heroine Lovers Huqqa Servants
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. 366, cat. no. 67
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	4648(IS)

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Record created	November 1, 2002
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O69014/vasakasajja-nayika-painting-unknown/

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