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Furniture from British India and Ceylon : a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum / 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.

Title
Furniture from British India and Ceylon : a catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum / 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.
Author
Victoria and Albert Museum
Publication
London : V & A Publications, 2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Jaffer, Amin
  • Corrigan, Karina
  • Jones, Robin D.
  • Peabody Essex Museum.
Description
416 pages : illustrations (some color), color map, portraits (some color); 29 cm
Subject
  • Victoria and Albert Museum > Catalogs
  • Peabody Essex Museum > Catalogs
  • Peabody Essex Museum
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Furniture, Colonial > India > Catalogs
  • Furniture, Colonial > Sri Lanka > Catalogs
  • Furniture, Colonial > Great Britain > Catalogs
  • Furniture, Colonial > Massachusetts > Salem > Catalogs
  • Meubles coloniaux > Inde > Catalogues
  • Meubles coloniaux > Sri Lanka > Catalogues
  • Meubles coloniaux > Grande-Bretagne > Catalogues
  • Meubles coloniaux > Massachusetts > Salem > Catalogues
  • Furniture, Colonial
  • Meubelkunst
  • Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Great Britain
  • India
  • Massachusetts > Salem
  • Sri Lanka
Genre/Form
  • catalogs (documents)
  • Catalogs
  • Catalogues.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Life in early British India -- 2. Furnishings and the domestic interior -- 3. The availability and acquisition of furniture -- 4. The Indian consumption of western furniture and decorative articles -- Catalogue: Southern India -- Eastern India -- Northern India -- Western India -- Ceylon (Sri Lanka) / introduction by Robin Jones -- Unattributed furniture -- Appendix: Custom values for domestic goods exported from Britain to the East Indies between 1700 and 1900 -- Glossary of terms -- Glossary of materials / by Adam Bowett -- Bibliography -- Concordance of museum and catalogue numbers -- Index.
ISBN
  • 1851773185
  • 9781851773183
OCLC
  • 45580438
  • SCSB-12012784
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library