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Book cover with tree, birds, and insects
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Description
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › south India › Andhra Pradesh › Golconda (possible place of creation)Asia › India › south India › Andhra Pradesh › Hyderabad (possible place of creation)
- Date
- c. 1700
- Material and technique
- lacquer and gouache with gold on leather
- Dimensions
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frame 32.9 x 26.1 x 1.5 cm (height x width x depth)
painting 23 x 16.3 cm (height x width)
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processed material › metal › gold,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by Howard Hodgkin.
- Accession no.
- LI118.64
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Further reading
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 45 on p. 110, illus. pp. 111 & 113
Glossary
lacquer
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lacquer
Chinese and Japanese lacquer is made from the sap of the lacquer tree, which is indigenous to Eastern China. It is applied to wood as a varnish or for decorative effect. In India and the Middle East, lacquer is made from the deposit of the lac insect.
Past Exhibition
see (1)
Location
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- Returned to lender
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