Saddle Pommel
ca. 1850 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Little is known about this silver gilt saddle pommel other than that it was formerly in the collection of the Indian Museum, formed by the East India Company in the early 19th century and housed in the company’s premises in London. According to the minimal information provided in the Indian Museum ‘slip books’, which contain accession details of the collection, it was acquired in 1855 as an object from Lahore, the historic regional capital, now in north-east Pakistan. In 1880, the pommel was transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum) in a major transfer of the Indian Museum’s holdings.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Silver and silver-gilt |
| Brief description | Saddle pommel, silver and silver gilt, Lahore, mid-19th century |
| Physical description | The silver gilt pommel from the front of a saddle has a curved upper section that provides a grip for the hands. The lower section of silver, gilt at the outer edges, has a single chased flower head in low relief at the centre on both sides. |
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| Credit line | Transferred from the India Museum in 1879 |
| Object history | Formerly in the Indian Museum collections and transferred to South Kensington in 1880. Listed in the Indian Museum slip books (containing minimal accession records) as being from Lahore and acquired in 1855. |
| Production | Transferred from the India Museum to South Kensington Museum in 1879 |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | Little is known about this silver gilt saddle pommel other than that it was formerly in the collection of the Indian Museum, formed by the East India Company in the early 19th century and housed in the company’s premises in London. According to the minimal information provided in the Indian Museum ‘slip books’, which contain accession details of the collection, it was acquired in 1855 as an object from Lahore, the historic regional capital, now in north-east Pakistan. In 1880, the pommel was transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum) in a major transfer of the Indian Museum’s holdings. |
| Bibliographic reference | Stronge, S. (Ed.) "The Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms", V&A, 1999
p. 238, Cat. 209 |
| Other number | 8,363 - India Museum Slip Book |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | 05040(IS) |
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| Record created | January 2, 2003 |
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