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- Bath Beggars; Print
- Collection:
- Victoria Art Gallery
- Associated person:
- Unknown
- Person's association:
- Creation
- Object name:
- Bath Beggars; Print
- Object number:
- BATVG : PD : 1998.103
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8e2ae544-d198-3576-9128-d99ea938be94
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8e2ae544-d198-3576-9128-d99ea938be94, Victoria Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Iohannes Heurnius; Print
- Collection:
- Victoria Art Gallery
- Associated person:
- Unknown
- Person's association:
- Creation
- Object name:
- Iohannes Heurnius; Print
- Object number:
- BATVG : PD : 1998.96.117
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3fd1d900-10f6-3a99-88e7-8f7131a45d5c
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3fd1d900-10f6-3a99-88e7-8f7131a45d5c, Victoria Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- John Hunter; Print
- Collection:
- Victoria Art Gallery
- Associated person:
- Unknown
- Person's association:
- Creation
- Object name:
- John Hunter; Print
- Object number:
- BATVG : PD : 1998.96.129
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/806c953b-d100-38f8-b445-c0bb95596fed
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/806c953b-d100-38f8-b445-c0bb95596fed, Victoria Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Sketchbook
- Collection:
- Victoria Art Gallery
- Associated date:
- 1955
- Date - association:
- Creation
- Associated person:
- Ayrton Michael
- Person's association:
- Creation
- Object name:
- Sketchbook
- Object number:
- BATVG : PD : 2014.4
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a4e1ba8a-cd3f-30ec-a1cf-cbea7950e81a
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/a4e1ba8a-cd3f-30ec-a1cf-cbea7950e81a, Victoria Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Fan
- Brief description:
- Axe-shaped fan (Panka) of cotton embroidered with silk thread. Opens to a butterfly shape. Outside the cotton surface has coloured silk and spangled embroidery with silver tinsel border. The embroidery ground is covered with a pattern of hexagons enclosing flower sprigs in shades of red and green, and the prominent effect being pink and tarnished silver. The lining, of European and probably Spitalfields, silk is brocaded with sprigs of coloured flowers on a ground of white and silver stripes. The metal handle is gilt with silver.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Embroidery
- Associated concept:
- Textiles
- Associated concept:
- Accessories
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Material:
- Cotton
- Object history note:
- Stated to have belonged to Marion, second wife of Warren Hastings, Governor of India and formerly Baroness Imhoff.
Purchased from Archibald Graham, Esq. in 1938.
- Object name:
- Fan
- Object number:
- IM.7-1938
- Object production date:
- late 18th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1750-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1799-12-31
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Murshidabad
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Axe-shaped fan (Panka) of cotton embroidered with silk thread. Opens to a butterfly shape. Outside the cotton surface has coloured silk and spangled embroidery with silver tinsel border. The embroidery ground is covered with a pattern of hexagons enclosing flower sprigs in shades of red and green, and the prominent effect being pink and tarnished silver. The lining, of European and probably Spitalfields, silk is brocaded with sprigs of coloured flowers on a ground of white and silver stripes. The metal handle is gilt with silver.
- Reproduction number:
- 2021MV8185
- Reproduction number:
- 2012FE3191
- Reproduction number:
- 2017JU9235
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- Embroidery
- Technique:
- Embroidered cotton with silk thread and spangles, lined with brocaded silk
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- Reference:
- The art of India and Pakistan, a commemorative catalogue of the exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1947-8. Edited by Sir Leigh Ashton. London: Faber and Faber, [1950]
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.69
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p. 82, cat. no. 360
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e8cf577f-64de-3ff0-aaa1-013008f6d407
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/e8cf577f-64de-3ff0-aaa1-013008f6d407, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- The Black and White Gallery
- Object name(s):
- Poster
- Brief description:
- 'The Black and White Gallery. Louis Meyer'; Facsimile of a signboard (1897/8) advertising the art gallery at 37 Old Bond Street, London; Depicting a woman wearing a large hat; Colour collotype; Signed.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Associated concept:
- Advertising
- Associated concept:
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Associated concept:
- Posters
- Associated object:
- CIRC.228-1961
- Content - concept:
- woman
- Content - concept:
- hat
- Credit line:
- Presented by Dr. W. A. Propert
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 48.2
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 61.5
- Inscription content:
- 'The Black and White / Gallery / Louis Meyer'
- Inscription interpretation:
- Text as part of design.
- Material:
- brown paper
- Object name:
- Poster
- Object number:
- E.1027-1926
- Object production date:
- 1897-1898
- Date - association:
- designed
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1897-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1898-12-31
- Object production organisation:
- Beggarstaff Brothers
- Organisation's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- Great Britain
- Place association:
- issued
- Other number:
- 4/A10
- Other number type:
- V&A microfiche
- Physical description:
- 'The Black and White Gallery. Louis Meyer'; Facsimile of a signboard (1897/8) advertising the art gallery at 37 Old Bond Street, London; Depicting a woman wearing a large hat; Colour collotype; Signed.
- Reproduction number:
- 2014HG8841
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AM3770
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Technique:
- collotype
- Technique:
- Colour collotype
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Summary Catalogue of British Posters to 1988 in the Victoria & Albert Museum in the Department of Design, Prints & Drawing. Emmett Publishing, 1990. 129 p. ISBN: 1 869934 12 1
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1926, London: Board of Education, 1927.
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3eaffe35-d57d-3307-85a1-06c79c0229bb
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/3eaffe35-d57d-3307-85a1-06c79c0229bb, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Coin, Antoninianus, Victorinus, VICTORIA AUG.
- Collection:
- Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
- Associated place:
- Puncknowle
- Material:
- Billon
- Object name:
- Coin, Antoninianus, Victorinus, VICTORIA AUG.
- Object number:
- 1913.1.91
- Object production date:
- Roman
- Responsible department/section:
- Metalwork
- Technical attribute:
- Number of coins
- Technical attribute measurement:
- 1
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5df95578-813d-3781-a247-117b0db1d950
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/5df95578-813d-3781-a247-117b0db1d950, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Coin, Antoninianus, Postumus, VICTORIA AUG
- Collection:
- Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
- Associated place:
- Puncknowle
- Material:
- Billon?
- Object name:
- Coin, Antoninianus, Postumus, VICTORIA AUG
- Object number:
- 1913.1.58
- Object production date:
- Roman
- Responsible department/section:
- Metalwork
- Technical attribute:
- Number of coins
- Technical attribute measurement:
- 1
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/891b0472-8f16-361b-9990-2885996a9b9f
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/891b0472-8f16-361b-9990-2885996a9b9f, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Coin, Penny, Victoria, 1879
- Collection:
- Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
- Associated place:
- Location unknown
- Material:
- Silver
- Object name:
- Coin, Penny, Victoria, 1879
- Object number:
- 1952.68.5
- Object production date:
- Ind
- Responsible department/section:
- Metalwork
- Technical attribute:
- Number of coins
- Technical attribute measurement:
- 1
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/43d93408-565c-3066-b80c-f59a1c08fa8d
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/43d93408-565c-3066-b80c-f59a1c08fa8d, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Coin, Three pence, Victoria, 1891
- Collection:
- Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
- Material:
- Silver
- Object name:
- Coin, Three pence, Victoria, 1891
- Object number:
- M1422
- Object production date:
- Ind
- Responsible department/section:
- Metalwork
- Technical attribute:
- Number of coins
- Technical attribute measurement:
- 1
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b950ca48-5165-3652-938e-9b37f4be63cd
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/b950ca48-5165-3652-938e-9b37f4be63cd, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Coin, Half Crown, Victoria, 1887
- Collection:
- Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
- Material:
- Silver
- Object name:
- Coin, Half Crown, Victoria, 1887
- Object number:
- M1418
- Object production date:
- Ind
- Responsible department/section:
- Metalwork
- Technical attribute:
- Number of coins
- Technical attribute measurement:
- 1
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/eb0f1be2-024f-30ca-b6de-6b52500cf10e
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/eb0f1be2-024f-30ca-b6de-6b52500cf10e, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- The Poole Potteries … exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
- Object name(s):
- Catalogue
- Collection:
- Dorset Museum & Art Gallery
- Associated concept:
- Poole
- Dimension:
- Number of pages
- Dimension value:
- 32
- Object name:
- Catalogue
- Object number:
- L.1979.726
- Object production date:
- 1978
- Date - text:
- Published
- Object production organisation:
- Victoria & Albert Museum
- Organisation's association:
- Publisher
- Responsible department/section:
- Library
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2435f5ac-9fb3-3bba-aa4c-f81965a98f87
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/2435f5ac-9fb3-3bba-aa4c-f81965a98f87, Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- letter; letter from queen victoria thanking for gift of statue of prince albert
- Brief description:
- Letter from Queen Victoria thanking for gift of statue of Prince Albert
- Collection:
- Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery
- Acquisition date:
- 12.1935
- Dimension:
- size
- Dimension value:
- W320 x H250mm
- Material:
- paper
- Number of objects:
- 1
- Object name:
- letter; letter from queen victoria thanking for gift of statue of prince albert
- Object number:
- 136.008
- Object production date:
- 221887
- Object production person:
- Queen Victoria
- Person's association:
- producer
- Technique:
- hand drawn
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d49be1e9-d236-3d4f-9fed-df80fff07448
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/d49be1e9-d236-3d4f-9fed-df80fff07448, Cyfarthfa Castle Museum & Art Gallery, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- The Whitechapel Art Gallery November 1980-January 1981
- Object name(s):
- Leaflet
- Brief description:
- Printed leaflet depicting an image of Max Beckmann
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ephemera
- Associated concept:
- Printed pages & sheets
- Content - concept:
- exhibitions
- Content - concept:
- galleries
- Credit line:
- Given by Richard Hollis
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 21
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 9.8
- Material:
- paper (fiber product)
- Object name:
- Leaflet
- Object number:
- E.157-2022
- Object production date:
- 1980
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1980-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1980-12-31
- Object production person:
- Richard Hollis
- Person's association:
- designer
- Object production place:
- Britain
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Printed leaflet depicting an image of Max Beckmann
- Reproduction number:
- 2024NX5378
- Reproduction number:
- 2024NX5377
- Reproduction number:
- 2024NX5376
- Responsible department/section:
- PDP
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/879cd1b0-4984-3dca-9d23-0a39da705a54
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/879cd1b0-4984-3dca-9d23-0a39da705a54, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Leonore And Imperiale (ASE 27)
- Collection:
- Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
- Accession date:
- 1901-02
- Acquisition method:
- Gift
- Associated concept:
- Prints
- Associated date:
- 1841
- Associated person:
- Queen Victoria
- Credit line:
- Presented in 1901 by Alexander George Pirie.
- Current location:
- On Display - Gallery 09
- Dimension:
- Plate Size: Height: 20.2 cm, Width: 15.1 cm
Frame: Height: 55.5 cm, Width: 40 cm
- Material:
- etching on paper
- Object number:
- ABDAG007381
- Object production date:
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1841
- Date - latest:
- 1841
- Object status:
- Accessioned object
- Responsible department/section:
- Fine Art
- Right type:
- Out of copyright - CC0
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/51298d5a-b42f-325b-b538-89ef74300b86
Use licence for this record: CC 0
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/51298d5a-b42f-325b-b538-89ef74300b86, Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums, CC 0
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- Title:
- Ear ornaments
- Object name(s):
- Earrings
- Brief description:
- The ear ornaments are made from hollow sheet gold with applied chased, twisted and plain wire, granulation and other decoration.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Jewellery
- Associated concept:
- Metalwork
- Associated concept:
- India Museum
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 3
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- maximum
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 2.6
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 2.2
- Material:
- Gold
- Object history note:
- The objects came from the Annual International Exhibition, London, 1872, acquired by the India Museum in 1877, transferred from the India Museum in 1879.
- Object name:
- Earrings
- Object number:
- 02970A/(IS)
- Object production date:
- mid 19th century
- Date - association:
- Made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1825-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1875-12-31
- Object production note:
- Described in register as 'toe rings, Bengal' - may possibly be from Assam. However, these are ear ornaments.
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Bengal
- Place association:
- Made
- Place note:
- probably Orissa or Assam
- Physical description:
- The ear ornaments are made from hollow sheet gold with applied chased, twisted and plain wire, granulation and other decoration.
- Reproduction number:
- 2006BG4697
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- Chasing
- Technique:
- granulation
- Technique:
- Gold, with applied beaded and twisted wire and granulation.
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- Text:
- These earrings, made from hollow sheet gold with applied chased, twisted and plain wire, granulation and other decoration, were probably produced in Eastern India. They were included in the 1872 Annual International Exhibition in London, acquired by the Indian Museum in 1877, and transferred to the South Kensington Museum (later renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum) in 1879.
- Text reason:
- Summary description
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- Reference:
- Barnard, Nick, Indian Jewellery: The V&A Collection London: V&A Publishing, 2008 Number: ISBN 9781851774838
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.73
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p. 61, pl.3.15
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/c7c45821-c8c2-3df2-96d9-c89bf56a99fe
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Title:
- Perfume-holder ('Attardan')
- Object name(s):
- Perfume holder
- Brief description:
- The box is in two halves and made of silver filigree. It is in the form of a six-petalled flower, each petal being vesica-shaped and forming a receptacle for a separate type of perfume. Each receptacle is fitted with a hinged lid ornamented with a rosette of three layers of star-like flowers. At the centre of the attardan is a securing rosette with hinged lid and spray of blue beads, which screws into a hole and locks the lids of the six sections. The whole set stands on three ball-feet each adorned with a small filigree butterfly.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Entertainment & Leisure
- Associated concept:
- Metalwork
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 8.1
- Material:
- silver
- Object history note:
- A gift received from Miss M.J.H. Buckland in 1931.
- Object name:
- Perfume holder
- Object number:
- IM.2-1931
- Object production date:
- c.1870
- Date - association:
- Made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1870-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1870-12-31
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Dhaka
- Place association:
- Made
- Physical description:
- The box is in two halves and made of silver filigree. It is in the form of a six-petalled flower, each petal being vesica-shaped and forming a receptacle for a separate type of perfume. Each receptacle is fitted with a hinged lid ornamented with a rosette of three layers of star-like flowers. At the centre of the attardan is a securing rosette with hinged lid and spray of blue beads, which screws into a hole and locks the lids of the six sections. The whole set stands on three ball-feet each adorned with a small filigree butterfly.
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MP5480
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- filigree
- Technique:
- Silver filigree with blue glass beads on the butterflies on the lid
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.74
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/844a7d25-2e07-3826-9546-0d5e44259615
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Prayer-shawl
- Brief description:
- Prayer-shawl or 'namabali', rectangular unbleached cotton block-printed with strings of sacred texts, mainly various names of Vishnu (hence 'namabali') in a grid pattern. The borders are adorned with 'Vishnu's footprint' ('Vishnupada'). Worn by Vaishnavite devotees of both sexes during their prayers also as a wrapper by devotees. Complete piece.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Textiles
- Associated concept:
- Religion
- Associated concept:
- Clothing
- Associated concept:
- Parasol Foundation Trust Indian Textiles Cataloguing Project
- Associated concept:
- India Museum
- Content - concept:
- Hinduism
- Content - concept:
- footprints
- Content - concept:
- Hinduism
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 251
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 106
- Inscription content:
- 'Paris Universal Exhibition/Cloth sheet dyed with the names of Hindoo Gods//From district 24 Purgunnahs Bengal//Exhibited by Koomar/[start of word unclear]urendra/Krishna Bohadur'
- Inscription interpretation:
- paper label, handwritten, attached to object
- Material:
- cotton
- Object history note:
- Transferred from India Museum 1879.
- Object history note:
- Intended for use as a garment, worn during prayer.
- Object name:
- Prayer-shawl
- Object number:
- 6563(IS)
- Object production date:
- ca. 1855-1879
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1850-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1879-12-31
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Dhaka
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Prayer-shawl or 'namabali', rectangular unbleached cotton block-printed with strings of sacred texts, mainly various names of Vishnu (hence 'namabali') in a grid pattern. The borders are adorned with 'Vishnu's footprint' ('Vishnupada'). Worn by Vaishnavite devotees of both sexes during their prayers also as a wrapper by devotees. Complete piece.
- Reproduction number:
- 2012FW3508
- Reproduction number:
- 2012FW3509
- Reproduction number:
- 2013GU2127
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- woven
- Technique:
- printed
- Technique:
- Cotton, woven and printed
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.67
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- Title:
- Glazed tile
- Object name(s):
- Tile
- Brief description:
- Glazed tile with raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Ceramics
- Associated concept:
- Tiles
- Associated concept:
- Architecture
- Associated concept:
- India Museum
- Content - concept:
- Islamic
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 17.8
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 12.6
- Dimension:
- Depth
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 4
- Material:
- Terracotta
- Object history note:
- From the ruins of city of Gaur
Historical significance: Example of glazed terracotta tile from the Sultanate Bengal period.
- Object name:
- Tile
- Object number:
- 9363:32/(IS)
- Object production date:
- late 15th century - early 16th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1450-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1550-12-31
- Object production note:
- A part of a cask containing tiles, bricks etc nearly all in fragments. Most likely the tile was originally used inside the Gaur Palace.
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Gaur (West Bengal)
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Glazed tile with raised floral arabesque in blue on a white enamelled background.
- Reproduction number:
- 2010EA0680
- Reproduction number:
- 2020MT9461
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Style:
- Sultanate Bengal
- Technique:
- Glazed
- Technique:
- Glazed terracotta
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Mitra, Pratip Kumar, Source Material on the Medieval Cities of Gaur and Pandua (West Bengal, India) in the British Public Collections, Archaeology of Eastern India: New Perspectives, Centre for Archaeological Studies and Training Eastern India, Kolkata 2002, pp279-330, fig.19 (p.328).
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.32
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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- Object name(s):
- Border
- Brief description:
- Border made of white muslin embroidered with yellow 'tasar' silk in chain stitch. With repeating pattern of birds and deer among floral sprigs between two narrow wavy sprig borders. All the motifs, worked in rows of chain stitch, are yellow on a white ground. Below is a scalloped fringe of loose bobbin lace.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Embroidery
- Associated concept:
- Textiles
- Associated concept:
- Lace
- Content - concept:
- flower
- Content - concept:
- bird
- Credit line:
- Given by Miss Evelyn J. Markham and Miss Mabel F. Markham
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 155
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 23
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 61
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 8.75
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measured part:
- repeat
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 12
- Material:
- cotton
- Object name:
- Border
- Object number:
- T.6-1936
- Object production date:
- 17th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1600-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1700-12-31
- Object production note:
- The town of Hooghly on the River Hooghly or Bhagirathi was a trading post for many European companies including East India Company.
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Hugli
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Border made of white muslin embroidered with yellow 'tasar' silk in chain stitch. With repeating pattern of birds and deer among floral sprigs between two narrow wavy sprig borders. All the motifs, worked in rows of chain stitch, are yellow on a white ground. Below is a scalloped fringe of loose bobbin lace.
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN9651
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN8415
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN8413
- Reproduction number:
- 2012FN1463
- Reproduction number:
- 2019LX7406
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- embroidered
- Technique:
- Embroidered cotton muslin with silk, bobbin lace
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- Reference:
- Indian embroidery / Rosemary Crill ; photography by Richard Davis. London: V&A Publications, 1999 Number: 185177310X, 1851772944 (pbk.)
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.66
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.39, pl. 20
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