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WD1325
- Record Id:
- 040-003288239
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003288215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028184975.0x0001d4
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100137997319.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- WD1325
- Title:
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Red and black ware pottery from cairn circle graves, Chikanhalli, Jivarji and Andola, Gulbarga district. Artist(s): Taylor, Philip Meadows (1808-1876)
- Scope & Content:
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Watercolour by Philip Meadows Taylor (1808-1876) of red and black ware pottery from cairn circle graves at Chikanhalli, Jivarji and Andola in the Gulbarga district of Karnataka, dated 1851.
Inscribed on front in ink:’ Pottery from Cairns. Chikunhulli, Jewargi and Andola. Meadows Taylor delt. Sketch No. 10.’
All of these eleven objects are reproduced in Taylor's 'Descriptions of Cairns, Cromlechs, Kistvaens and other Celtic, Druidical or Scythian monuments in the Dekhan' (Dublin, 1865). Objects Nos. 8, 10 and 11 are reproduced together with the caption: 'Chickunhulli Cairns. Large Urns, containing human ashes and charcoal'. These are all over three feet high and between one foot nine inches and two feet three inches in diameter. The remaining images are reproduced together at a quarter their original size, 1,2,3 and 9 from cairn excavations at Jivarji and 4,5,6 and 7 from cairns at Andola Taylor wrote, "The vases or pots found in these cairns...had been placed, some at the head of the bodies behind the cists, others upon shelves left in the shale. They were red and black earthenware, covered with a rough vitreous glaze."
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003288215
040-003288239 - Is part of:
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808-1876) : TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808-1876) Meadows Taylor joined a commercial house in Bombay in 1823, and in 1824…
WD1325 : Red and black ware pottery from cairn circle graves, Chikanhalli, Jivarji and Andola, Gulbarga district. Artist(s): Taylor, Philip… - Hierarchy:
- 032-003288215[0024]/040-003288239
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808-1876)
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100137997319.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1851
- End Date:
- 1851
- Date Range:
- 1851
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: watercolour. 38 x 27 cm
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, British drawings in the India Office Library (London, 1969) Volume I-II, 338
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)