Objects
We are still developing a comprehensive list of objects of interest for the study. In the meantime, you will find below an indicative preliminary list of object types we are working on.
Ivory Chairs
Armchair
Murshidabad, ca.1785
Ivory, carved, pierced and partly gilded, with a caned seat
1075-1882 Victoria and Albert Museum
Ivory Toilet Glasses
Toilet glass
Vishakhapatnam, 1790-1800
Sandalwood, veneered with engraved ivory with silver mounts
IS. 31-1975 Victoria and Albert Museum
Ivory Gifts
Work box
Ivory
Belmont House, Faversham, Kent
Chinese armorial export ware porcelain
Plate
China, c. 1760s
Unknown Objects Feature
Portraits of East India Company Officials and their Family Members
Portrait of Sir Charles Raymond
Reproduced by kind permission of The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Copyright 2012
Miniatures of East India Company Officials and their Family Members
Miss Harriet and Miss Elizabeth Binney
Miniature by John Smart, 1806
Watercolour on card
P.20-1978 Victoria and Albert Museum
Chinese Wallpaper
Chinese wallpaper brought back to 440 The Strand, by the McCartney mission at the end of the eighteenth century.
Chintz
Handkerchief
Pulicat, India, C18th
Painted and dyed cotton chintz, linen thread
IS.166-1950 Victoria and Albert Museum
Hookahs
'Hookah'
Frans Balthasar Solvyns
Drawing, published 1798
8937:184 Victoria and Albert Museum
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