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Box

1720 - 1730 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Box, ebony, Vizagapatam, 1720-30


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Ebony, the bottom of wood, inlaid with ivory, engraved and highlighted with lac; with iron lock and hinges
Brief description
Box, ebony, Vizagapatam, 1720-30
Dimensions
  • Height: 10.5cm
  • Width: 31.5cm
  • Depth: 22cm
Credit line
Bought (Source not recorded)
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic reference
Jaffer, Amin Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. London : V&A Publications, 2001. 416 p., ill. ISBN 1851773185.p.186, pl.37.
Collection
Accession number
482-1903

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Record createdDecember 5, 2002
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