The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
A Ruler Presents a Document to Visiting Nobles
c. 1700–1720
Overall: 22 x 32.7 cm (8 11/16 x 12 7/8 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1996.296
Location: 242B Indian Painting
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The figure in white has his mouth open, indicating that he is singing, accompanied by the musician behind him.Description
Many carpets produced in the southwestern region of the Indian subcontinent feature a tone-on-tone mustard-yellow color scheme with lattice design. It demarcates the space of honor for the highest-ranking members of the refined gathering of literary connoisseurs. The figure facing right, with the peacock-feather whisk held over him, would be the host. He has a letter or poem in his hand. His guests have partaken of an aromatic betel-leaf packet (paan) and a rose from the dishes between them. Implements for writing and trimming paper lie on the carpet between a spittoon and courtly stabbing dagger (katar).- ?–1996(Mr. Kalesan Natesan, London, UK, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1996–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Cleveland Museum of Art, “Renaissance Armor, Early Islamic Ceramic, French Vase, Gleitsman Painting Added to Museum Collection,” December 13, 1996, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
- Carpets and Canopies in Mughal India (Indian art rotation). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 22-September 8, 2024).Indian Gallery 242 Rotation – April-November 2018. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (April 2-November 18, 2018).
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