Flowering Marigold (verso) (c. 1765): Art, History and Details

Flowering Marigold (verso) (c. 1765) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Hunhar II (Indian, active mid-1700s).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Trade with the Portuguese, which flourished through the 1500s to 1600s, brought many new plants to India from their territories in South America. Examples include potatoes, tomatoes, and marigolds, all of which became staples of Indian daily life. Because of their beautifully vibrant color, marigolds were made into flower garlands and continue to be much used in devotional offerings throughout India.

Object facts

• Title: Flowering Marigold (verso)
• Date: c. 1765
• Creator attribution: Hunhar II (Indian, active mid-1700s)
• Culture: India, Murshidabad or Lucknow, Mughal, 18th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: Gum tempera and gold on paper
• Dimensions: Page: 33.1 x 24.9 cm (13 1/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: Indian Art - Mughal
• Department: Indian and Southeast Asian Art
• Accession number: 2013.351.b

Collection credit

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

Further reading listed by the museum

• Mace, Sonya Rhie, Mohsen Ashtiany, Catherine Glynn, Pedro Moura Carvalho, Marcus Fraser, and Ruby Lal. Mughal Paintings: Art and Stories: the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2016.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.