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... Catalogue of the objects of Indian art exhibited in the South Kensington Museum ... Illustrated by woodcuts, and by a map of India showing the localities of various art industries

Cole, Henry Hardy, 1843- · 1874 · London : Printed by G. E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode · 7 pictures

A South Kensington Museum catalogue of Indian art objects compiled by Henry Hardy Cole and printed in London in 1874 for museum visitors and students of decorative arts. The woodcut plates show a carved casket with figurative panels, a buffalo-hide shield with enamelled gold bosses, a printed cotton with flowers on an ochre ground, and a white glazed earthenware vessel with blue arabesque patterns, offering designers historical motifs for pattern and ornament.

Art -- India · Art -- England -- London · Art objects -- Private collections

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