Furniture from British India and Ceylon
Subtitle: a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum
By: Amin Jaffer assisted in Salem by Karina Corrigan and with a contribution by Robin D. Jones ; photographs by Mike Kitcatt, Markham Sexton and Jeffrey Dykes.
Contributors: Corrigan, Karina.
Publisher: Peabody Essex Museum in association with V&A Publications
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Salem, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 416
Subjects: Victoria and Albert Museum -- Catalogs.; Peabody Essex Museum -- Catalogs.; Furniture, Colonial -- India -- Catalogs.; Furniture, Colonial -- Sri Lanka -- Catalogs.; Furniture -- England -- London -- Catalogs.; Furniture -- Massachusetts -- Salem -- Catalogs.; Furniture, Colonial -- India.; Furniture, Colonial -- Sri Lanka.
Genres: Catalogs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-409) and index.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: Forewords 8 NORIHERN INDIA 272; value: Acknowledgements 10 Delhi and Amritsar: Ivory Boxes and Boxes; value: Notes to the reader 12 with Ivory Miniatures (98-103) 274; value: Introduction 14 Dehi (104) 281; value: Map 25 Etawah and Tonk (105-7) 283; value: Hoshiarpur, Chiniot and Lahore (108-15) 285; value: 1. Life in Early British India 26 Kashmir (116-21) 294; value: Luckno-w ( 22-3) 302; value: 2. Furnishings and the Domestic Interior 51 k (22-3); value: Mainpuri (124-5) 305; value: 3. The Availability and Acquisition Simla, ( 2 308; value: Simla (126) 308; value: of Furniture 76; value: 4. The Indian Consumption of Western WESTERN INDIA 310; value: Furniture and Decorative Articles 106 Baroda (127) 312; value: Bombay, Surat and Ahmedabad: Micromosaic; value: CATALOGUE Boxes (128-50) 313; value: SOUTHERN INDIA 128 Bombay(151-74) 330; value: Coromandel Coast (cat. nos 14) 130; value: Kunul (5-6) 143 CEYLON (SRI LANKA) 360; value: Madras City(7-11) 145 Introduction by Robin Jones 362; value: Mysore and Canara: Cared Sandalwood (12-24) 149 Ceylon Unspecified (1758) 366; value: Mysore City: IvoryInlay(25-7) 160 Galle District (179-90) 370; value: Travancore: Ivory Work (28-9) 166; value: Travancore:KoftgariWork(30-31) 170 UNATTRIBUTED FURNITURE; value: (191-200) 384; value: Vizagapatam (32-68) 172 (191-200) 384; value: EASTERN INDIA 222 Appendix: Customs Values for Domestic Goods; value: Exported from Britain to the East Indies between; value: Baudh (69) 224 1700 and 1900 395; value: Benares (70) 228 Glossary of Trms 396; value: Calcurra (71-2) 230 Glossary of Materials by Adam Bowen 398; value: Calcutta: Micromosaic Boxes (73-6) 233 Bibliogaphy 400; value: Monghyr(77-9) 235 Concordance ofMuseum; value: Murshidabad and Berhampur (80-90) 238 and Catalogue Numbers 410; value: Nagina(91-3) 264 Index 411; value: Parna and Bareilly (94-7) 267.