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Seven designs for furniture.

Design
ca. 1814-1827 (Painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Design for an armchair, carved with with lion's head, doves and fishes.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleSeven designs for furniture. (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Brief description
Design for furniture, chair; watercolour, Lucknow, ca.1814-1827
Physical description
Design for an armchair, carved with with lion's head, doves and fishes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 13cm
  • Width: 8.4cm
Style
Object history
This furniture, like much of the furniture designed for the nawabs and kings of Oudh, was strongly influenced by the designs of Robert Home (1752-1834), who worked as a retained court-artist to Ghazi ud-Din Haidar (nawab 1814-1819; King 1819-1827) and Nasir ud-Din Haidar (1827-1837).
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period Victoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992 127 p. ISBN 0944142303
  • Guy, John and Swallow, Deborah (eds.) Arts of India: 1550-1900. Text by Rosemary Crill, John Guy, Veronica Murphy, Susan Stronge and Deborah Swallow. London : Victoria and Albert Museum, 1990, reprinted 1999. 240 p. : ill. ISBN: 1851770224. p. 182
  • Skelton, Robert, et al, The Indian Heritage. Court life and Arts under Mughal Rule London: The Victoria and Albert Museum, 1982 p. 69, cat. no. 186
Collection
Accession number
E.276-1967

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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