Vasanta Vilasa (a poem on Spring) (detail)

Object Details

• Previous custodian or owner

  N.C. Mehta

• Provenance

  To 1932

  N. C. Mehta, Lucknow, India to 1932 [1]

  From 1932

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from N. C. Mehta, Lucknow, India in 1932 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.

  [2] See note 1. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

• Origin

  Gujarat state, India

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

  CC0 - Creative Commons (CC0 1.0)

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s

• Name

  Mehta, N. C.

• Place

  Gujarat state, India

• Topic

  Ka?ma (Hindu deity), South Asian and Himalayan Art, Art, Illumination, Poetry, Spring

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Manuscripts