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11. Add Or 5475, f.42(b)

Reference (shelfmark):
Add Or 5475, f.42(b)
Title:
The marble and agate basin within the Shah Burj decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones. From the 'Metcalfe Album.'. Artist(s): Mazhar 'Ali Khan (fl.1840s), and studio
Scope & Content:
The marble and agate basin within the Shah Burj decorated with inlaid semi-precious stones.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1842-1844
Extent:
1 Item

12. Johnson 63,7

Reference (shelfmark):
Johnson 63,7
Title:
Women's jewellery
Scope & Content:
Women’s jewellery as worn on the head, hands and feet. Inscribed: ‘Gentoo womens manner of ornamenting their heads, hands & legs’; in German: ‘So wie die vornehmsten Mädgen zu Händen und’ ‘Füssen beringet sind, einige von Silber andere von Gold, die Ohr-ringe und Nasen ringe sind Allzeit vo...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1787
Extent:
1 Item

13. Mss Eur C14, ff.45-51

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C14, ff.45-51
Title:
4 drawings depicting fishing nets, pounders, musical instruments and pottery from an album of 46 drawings, the remainder illustrating the costumes of Bihar.
Scope & Content:
See Kaye no.170. 46 drawings (57 folios); 42 illustrating costumes worn by Hindu and Muhammadan men and women in Bihar, and 4 depicting fishing nets, pounders, musical instruments and pottery. Costume drawings c.1814; ethnographical drawings c.1808 to 1809. Inscribed with titles in ink. ff.1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1808
Extent:
1 Item

14. P1195-1198

Reference (shelfmark):
P1195-1198
Title:
Presentation pieces. Four illustrations from The Illustrated London News, 19th century: A plate, crystal fountain, dessert service and testimonials
Scope & Content:
Illustrations from periodicals showing Plates and Table Centres. P1195 'Plate presented by the inhabitants of Calcutta to Sir Rowland Macdonald Stephenson, Managing Director of the East Indian Railway'. P1196 'Colossal crystal fountain made for the Maharajah of Puttiala'. P1197 'Dessert se...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1880-1900
Extent:
1 Item

15. Photo 1253/1(36)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1253/1(36)
Title:
Some of the astonishing new architecture mushrooming up in cities all over Afghanistan. Part Disney, part wedding cake; inspired by Bollywood but reverential to Greek classicism; it represents an architectless kind of architecture. Photographer(s): Norfolk, Simon (1963–)
Scope & Content:
View of a row of highly decorative buildings. Stamped in black ink, verso, lower right: Burke + Norfolk / Photographs from the war in Afghanistan by John Burke and Simon Norfolk / Printed by Simon Norfolk, September 2011 / An archival, digital, chromogenic print on Fujicolor Crystal Archive / Pho...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
English
Date Range:
2010-2011
Extent:
1 item

16. WD540(85)

Reference (shelfmark):
WD540(85)
Title:
'The Lord White Elephant' Regalia.. Artist(s): Grant, Colesworthy (1813-1880)
Scope & Content:
‘'The Lord White Elephant' Regalia.’ FIG 1, — A plate of gold, probably eighteen inches in length, bordered with innumerable Rubies, and having, in the centre, the name or title of the Royal beast. Worn across the forehead. FIG 2. — The jewelled Frontlet, worn above the trunk, and below the ey...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1855
Extent:
1 Item

17. WD951

Reference (shelfmark):
WD951
Title:
A vase made from Gresik stone, engraved 'Java 1812'. Artist(s): 'Abdullah, Shaikh (fl. 1818-1819)
Scope & Content:
(64) A vase made from Gresik stone, engraved 'Java 1812'. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Drawing of a Vase cut out of the Gressee Stone & exhibiting the Natural Colors. August 1812. Shaik Abdullah. 1819.’ Water-colour; 19 by 11.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819
Extent:
1 Item

18. WD952

Reference (shelfmark):
WD952
Title:
Another vase of Gresik stone, engraved 'Java 1811'. Artist(s): 'Abdullah, Shaikh (fl. 1818-1819)
Scope & Content:
(65) Another vase of Gresik stone, engraved 'Java 1811'. Inscribed on front in ink: ‘Drawing of a Vase cut out of the Gressee Stone & exhibiting the Natural Colors. August 1812. Drawn by Shaik Abdullah. 16th Feby 1819.’ Water-colour; 19 by 11.5 ins.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1819
Extent:
1 Item

19. X43(14)

Reference (shelfmark):
X43(14)
Title:
Horses and jewels of Runjeet Singh. Plate 14 from the Honble. Miss Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India,' C. Hullmandel's lithography, published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844. Artist(s): Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908), after Eden, Emily (1797-1869)
Scope & Content:
Horses and jewels of Runjeet Singh. Plate 14 from the Honble. Miss Eden's 'Portraits of the Princes and People of India,' C. Hullmandel's lithography, published by J. Dickinson & Son, London, 1844.. Artist(s): Dickinson, Lowes Cato (1819-1908), after Eden, Emily (1797-1869)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1844
Extent:
1 Item

20. X803/1(21)

Reference (shelfmark):
X803/1(21)
Title:
'A Sunkaury' [maker of shell ornaments]. Section 1st No.21 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Scope & Content:
'A Sunkaury' [maker of shell ornaments]. Section 1st No.21 from 'A Collection of Two Hundred and Fifty Coloured Etchings descriptive of the Manners, Customs and Dresses of the Hindoos by Balt. Solvyns'. Calcutta, 1799.. Artist(s): Solvyns, Frans Balthazar (1760-1824)
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799
Extent:
1 Item