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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

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection B281

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Type of record: Book

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

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection B281

Creator(s): Jaffer, Amin

Additional creator(s): Corrigan, Karina (Contributor); Jones, Robin D (Contributor); Kitcatt, Mike (Photographer); Sexton, Markham (Photographer); Dykes, Jeffrey (Photographer); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Victoria and Albert Museum (Originating institution); Peabody Essex Museum (Originating institution)

Publisher: V & A Publications

Publication city: London

Date(s): 2001

Language: English

Size and medium: 416 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729642

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019895465905181

Description

Includes bibliographical references and index.


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.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B281: Contains loose article: Bounty hunter by Min Hogg. (Telegraph Magazine, 22 Jul. 2006)

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection B281: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: FFS/27.

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