Chair
1850-1860 (made)
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This chair, the related five side chairs and the accompanying table testify to the success with which 19th-century Indian carvers applied their skills to western furniture forms. The carving was considered so fine that when in 1921 it was first inspected by Caspar Stanley Clarke, Keeper of the Indian Section of the Museum, he likened it to the work of the renowned 17th-century carver Grinling Gibbons.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Ebony, carved and pierced; upholstered in velvet |
| Brief description | Ebony chair from a set of six. Madras c.1850-60 |
| Physical description | Chair of ebony, with later ebonised components, carved and pierced, with later crimson velven upholstery. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Mr Frederick Ross Thomson |
| Summary | This chair, the related five side chairs and the accompanying table testify to the success with which 19th-century Indian carvers applied their skills to western furniture forms. The carving was considered so fine that when in 1921 it was first inspected by Caspar Stanley Clarke, Keeper of the Indian Section of the Museum, he likened it to the work of the renowned 17th-century carver Grinling Gibbons. |
| Bibliographic reference | Jaffer, A. Furniture from British India and Ceylon: a catalogue of the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 2001. ISBN 1 85177 318 5.p.146, fig 8. |
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| Accession number | IM.6-1944 |
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| Record created | July 26, 2005 |
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