Ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture of Vizagapatnam, India, 1700-1825.
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 2/1/2001
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Author: JAFFER, AMIN
The ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture made in Vizagapatam (also called Vishakhapatnam), India (Pl. II), in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries presents an interesting case of the swiftness with which furniture designs were transmitted from cosmopolitan centers to the colonial periphery at that time. The city was the center of textile production and had the only natural harbor between Madras and Calcutta on the Bay of Bengal. This combination attracted European settlers, ...
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