Drawing for handle from a sword
19th century
Object PlacePatna, India (Eastern)
Medium/TechniqueInk and wash on paper
Dimensions18.5 x 11.1 cm (7 5/16 x 4 3/8 in.)
Credit LineRoss-Coomaraswamy Collection
Accession number17.2896
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDrawings / Watercolors
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1916, purchased in India by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (b. 1887 - d. 1947); 1917, sold by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy to Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1917, given by Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA. (Accession date: April 5, 1917)
Copy, about 1610, of a 1581 engraving
mid-17th century
early 16th century
mid-18th century
late 17th century
about 1800
19th century
18th–19th century
late 18th–early 19th century