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Indian silver for the Raj.(Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj)
Some categories of objects seem so well researched that it is hard to imagine that there is any new ground to discover. The art of the silvermith has long seemed to be one such area, so it is especially thrilling to be confronted with completely unfamiliar material at Columbia University's Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, where Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj opened last month (and will run through December 13). The exhibition explores the whole class of silver objects manufactured almost exclusively for the British household by Indian craftsmen from about 1858 until the end of British rule in India in 1947, the period typically referred to as the ...
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...parts of India during the British Raj will be put on display at a US museum this summer. Christened Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, the rare exhibition would run through July 25 to October 4 at Chazen Museum of Art, at Madison, Wisconsin...
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