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Three women look toward a man and white horse. The man holds a sword with his left hand and his body is in frontal view while his face is in profile. The horse is ornately decorated; its body has orange and green vegetal motifs all over. The horse's saddle is decorated with a green mustached face with large round eyes. The horse and the other figures have prominant almond shape eyes.
Artist Unknown, India, Maharashtra, Paithan School
Women Greet a Horseman from the Mahâbhârata
1800 – 1870
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1970/2.166
The central figure in the foreground is seated outdoors on an orange carpet with a green border, which is itself on a white carpet decorated in a floral pattern.  He reclines against a pillow. He is dressed in a sheer white shirt and yellow dhoti with a headdress. He is wearing a pearl necklace and has pearls in his headdress. His right hand rests on a foot while the other hand is extended outward. Behind him to the left is an attendant who is holding a fan over the central figure's head. The attendant is dressed more simply in white with a red headdress. A large hill looms in the background against a dark blue sky. An inscription is placed in the red border of the painting.
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Portrait of Badan Singh of Rampur
1775 – 1785
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1980/2.248
Three main figures (two men and the camel they are riding) are brought to the foreground because of the contrast between their light colors against the stark green hill. The hill dominates the background leaving only a little bit of blue sky visible in the top corners. Underneath the main figures a secondary white dog and rabbit are also prominent.
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Two men on a camel
1833 – 1866
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1980/2.246
This miniature painting is placed on a red background with text written above it. In the center, a woman is adorning herself while looking at a mirror that is held by a female attendant. They are seated inside a marble pavilion, with projecting porches topped by cupolas and a small rooftop chamber. Another female attendent plays a string instrument to the side in the foreground.
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Bilaval Ragini
1795 – 1805
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1980/2.244
The painting depicts a scene at night with a panel of text at the top. A central female figure sits on a rectangular carpet gazing upwardly at a male face. Three female attendants are standing beside her. A moon shines in the background. 
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Nayika who casts away her jewels
1767 – 1799
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1980/2.245
Leaf from a Kalpasutra manuscript with calligraphic text. Font size varies, and in the center of the leaf text wraps around a blank box of parchment with a red dot in the center. To the left of this main text block is a colorful illustration of an enthroned figure in a dotted robe flanked by devotees. Surrounding him are various auspicious symbols.
Indian (Indian (South Asian))
Kalpasutra manuscript, leaf: A Jaina monk (fol. no. 2r)
15th century
Gift of Professor Walter M. and Nesta R. Spink for the James Marshall Plumer Memorial Collection
1980/2.247
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