Luxury Goods from India: The Art of the Indian Cabinet-maker
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (917 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1851773819 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 128 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is an expert on the decorative arts of colonial India and is a regular lecturer and contributor to periodicals on this subject. He is also the author of Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum (V&A Publications, 2001). About the Author Dr Amin Jaffer is a curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
N. A. Stasulis said Gorgeous book!. Gorgeous photos, most in color; very readable text. Excellent heavy glossy paper, well done overall, well researched, well written. Super book on an artist who should be far better known than he is; a real genius.. Three Stars Frank Devine nice designs, good reference material
He is an expert on the decorative arts of colonial India and is a regular lecturer and contributor to periodicals on this subject. Dr Amin Jaffer is a curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum. . He is also the author of Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum (V&A Publicati
Many pieces illustrated here have never been published before, and Amin Jaffer's scholarly yet accessible text throws new light on a rich and largely unexplored tradition.. However there was no local furniture that suited the settlers' manner of living, so they commissioned extravagant pieces along European lines from native craftsmen, allowing them free rein with local materials. They discovered, to their surprise, rare articles of courtly furniture richly worked and inlaid with precious stones and gold. Many of these masterpieces were made to satisfy the demand of the colonial powers: the Portuguese, Dutch and British settlers who arrived on Indian shores from the late 15th century. The resulting fusion of Western forms with Indian materials and decorative techniques gave rise to a wide range of luxury goods - cabinets, game-tables, painted boxes, ceremonial arms - that were breathtaking in their craftsmanship and widely prized in Europe, where they found their way into royal collections, ecclesiastical tre