Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery
Discover the paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal period - the most powerful and lasting of the Islamic dynasties in India.
Galleries : 8 objects
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Casket with sloping lid
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 1st half of the 17th century
- Material and technique
- wood, overlaid with mother-of-pearl, with silver gilt mounts
- Dimensions
- 16.5 x 22.5 x 15.3 cm max. (height x width x depth)
- Material index
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organic › animal › shell › pearlshell › mother-of-pearl,
- Technique index
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covered › metallized › gilded
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- No. of items
- 2
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by J. Francis Mallett, 1947.
- Accession no.
- EA1998.2
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Further reading
Penny, Nicholas, Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum: 1540 to the Present Day, 3 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), no. 381 on p. 176
Location
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First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India
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First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India
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