Chest on Stand
ca. 1879 (made)
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This chest on stand was made at Bareilly, a city in northern India that in the 19th century was famous for its painted and varnished furniture. Bareilly furniture-makers produced objects in a variety of different decorative finishes, causing some confusion for future generations trying to determine their place of manufacture. This chest on stand is of a type made in a variety of different colours and styles, some of which, like this one, incorporated conventional western-style floral motifs and others that were directly inspired by lacquer designs on Chinese export furniture.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Wood, varnished and painted in gold and black on a cream coloured ground, with silvered brass lock and hinges, and the feet of the stand reinforced with later iron braces |
| Brief description | Chest on stand, wood, painted, Bareilly, before 1879. |
| Physical description | Rectangular lidded chest on a stand supported by at front and back on x-shaped legs. |
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| Summary | This chest on stand was made at Bareilly, a city in northern India that in the 19th century was famous for its painted and varnished furniture. Bareilly furniture-makers produced objects in a variety of different decorative finishes, causing some confusion for future generations trying to determine their place of manufacture. This chest on stand is of a type made in a variety of different colours and styles, some of which, like this one, incorporated conventional western-style floral motifs and others that were directly inspired by lacquer designs on Chinese export furniture. |
| 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.270, pl.96. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 02326:1, 2 |
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| Record created | December 3, 2002 |
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