- Title:
Jeweled Box for Buttee Nuts
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 3/4 × 11 7/8 inches (34.9 × 30.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and black ink, upper right: "A. Green Emeralds | B Green Do | C This is painted Green | upon Gold | D Green Emerald | This is a Diamond | supported by | 2 leaves | in this manner"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower center: "The above is for holding butti nuts and is made of Gold | < and > Diamonds + Emeralds - Introduced into the Peshwas | Group"; inscribed on mount above: "Paundan"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.22319
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:17646
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Adapting the Eye: an archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-10-11 - 2011-12-31) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]
Holly Shaffer, Adapting the eye, An archive of the British in India, 1770-1830 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2011, p.23, no. 7, V2359 (YCBA) [YCBA]