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Scrolling Floral Vines (verso)
Fayzullah (Indian, active c. 1730–1765)
1755
- Medium
- Gum tempera and gold on paper
- Classification
- Calligraphy
- Culture
- India, Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Indian and Southeast Asian Art
- Credit line
- 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
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This decorative folio of scrolling vines is on the reverse of a folio with a scene depicting the women’s palace quarters, wherein an older woman of the harem brings a young prince before a princess. Gold is used here to decorate the intricate border enclosing the vines of flowers.
