Sanveri Ragini, Page from a Ragamala Series (Garland of Musical Modes)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

This painting, which is identified as the Sanveri Ragini by the inscription on the upper border, depicts a courtly woman seated on a silver throne in a wooded landscape. The falcon perched on her left hand is an allusion to a bird’s song. The ragamala genre in the Pahari Hill region of Himachal Pradesh diverged from that in Rajasthan, with variant iconographic subjects and different compositional solutions, as evidenced in this work’s square format and intense, flat ground color.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in the world. Each of the many civilizations of Asia is represented by outstanding works, providing an unrivaled experience of the artistic traditions of nearly half the world.

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