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A Man Dips His Hand into a Cauldron as Ladies of the Harem Stand in Amazement: A Page from a Manuscript of Religious History

Mughal India

Opaque watercolor with gold on paper, text on verso

Page: 31.6 x 20.4 cm (12 7/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Gift in honor of Madeline Neves Clapp; Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon by exchange; Bequest of Louise T. Cooper; Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund; From the Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection 2013.307

Location

not on view

Provenance

Collection of Hagop Kevorkian (1872–1962), New York, before 1962

Sotheby’s, London, Highly Important Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures: The Property of the Kevorkian Foundation, 2 May 1977, lot 101

Exhibition history

Main gallery rotation (gallery 245): November 2, 2015 -

The Cleveland Museum of Art (7/31/2016-10/23/2016); Art and Stories from Mughal India, cat. 29, p. 291.