Furniture from British India and Ceylon

a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum

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Furniture from British India and Ceylon

a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum

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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: Forewords 8 NORIHERN INDIA 272
Acknowledgements 10 Delhi and Amritsar: Ivory Boxes and Boxes
Notes to the reader 12 with Ivory Miniatures (98-103) 274
Introduction 14 Dehi (104) 281
Map 25 Etawah and Tonk (105-7) 283
Hoshiarpur, Chiniot and Lahore (108-15) 285
1. Life in Early British India 26 Kashmir (116-21) 294
Luckno-w ( 22-3) 302
2. Furnishings and the Domestic Interior 51 k (22-3)
Mainpuri (124-5) 305
3. The Availability and Acquisition Simla, ( 2 308
Simla (126) 308
of Furniture 76
4. The Indian Consumption of Western WESTERN INDIA 310
Furniture and Decorative Articles 106 Baroda (127) 312
Bombay, Surat and Ahmedabad: Micromosaic
CATALOGUE Boxes (128-50) 313
SOUTHERN INDIA 128 Bombay(151-74) 330
Coromandel Coast (cat. nos 14) 130
Kunul (5-6) 143 CEYLON (SRI LANKA) 360
Madras City(7-11) 145 Introduction by Robin Jones 362
Mysore and Canara: Cared Sandalwood (12-24) 149 Ceylon Unspecified (1758) 366
Mysore City: IvoryInlay(25-7) 160 Galle District (179-90) 370
Travancore: Ivory Work (28-9) 166
Travancore:KoftgariWork(30-31) 170 UNATTRIBUTED FURNITURE
(191-200) 384
Vizagapatam (32-68) 172 (191-200) 384
EASTERN INDIA 222 Appendix: Customs Values for Domestic Goods
Exported from Britain to the East Indies between
Baudh (69) 224 1700 and 1900 395
Benares (70) 228 Glossary of Trms 396
Calcurra (71-2) 230 Glossary of Materials by Adam Bowen 398
Calcutta: Micromosaic Boxes (73-6) 233 Bibliogaphy 400
Monghyr(77-9) 235 Concordance ofMuseum
Murshidabad and Berhampur (80-90) 238 and Catalogue Numbers 410
Nagina(91-3) 264 Index 411
Parna and Bareilly (94-7) 267.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-409) and index.

Published in
Salem, Mass
Genre
Catalogs.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
749/.1/095407442134
Library of Congress
NK2647 .J34 2001, NK2647.J34 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
416 p. :
Number of pages
416

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL3582320M
ISBN 10
0883891174
LCCN
2002279060
OCLC/WorldCat
47014680
Goodreads
3638927

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OL5972072W

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