Great Indian Fruit Bat

خفاش فاكهة هندي

Great Indian Fruit Bat; Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession 2008.312.

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A fine Indian painting of a fruit bat; about 1777–1782, the British East India Company period at Murshidabad. Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 1

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Arabesque· Girih· Hedwig glass· Islamic calligraphy· Islamic geometric patterns· Islamic lustreware· Kubachi ware· Mahmal

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  1. Metropolitan Museum Open Access
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islam.museum contributors. “Great Indian Fruit Bat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/watwat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.

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