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View full screenPen-box, or qalam-dān, rectangular, with tray, painted with flowers and lacquered, with a moveable, red lacquered tray inside the box and two silver ink holders and writing tools inside: Asia, South Asia, India, Mughal, c. 1760
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India, South Asia
c. 1760s
Mughal
Wood, Lacquer, Ivory, Fish bone, Silver
Shah Alam II, 1728 - 1806
Indian Encounters (14 Nov 2014 - 01 Mar 2015)
National Museum of Scotland
Swinton, A. C. & J. L Campbell. Concerning Swinton family records and portraits at Kimmerghame. Edinburgh: Privately Printed by J. Lindsay, 1908.
Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H M Government and allocated to the National Museums Scotland [or NMS], 2021
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Head of a figure in hollow grey pottery, with large conventionalised eyes, shakoki-dogu (clay figurine with goggles), iron oxide coloring: Japan, Mutsu province, Final Jomon, middle period, Kamegaoka (Obora BC) style
Part of a figure carved in teak of Vishnu reposing in a trance on the coils of the serpent Sesha Ananta whose five heads are curled over that of the deity: South Asia, India, Malabar Coast, 17th - 18th century
Part of a figure carved in teak of Vishnu reposing in a trance on the coils of the serpent Sesha Ananta whose five heads are curled over that of the deity: South Asia, India, Malabar Coast, 17th - 18th century
Part of a figure carved in teak of Vishnu reposing in a trance on the coils of the serpent Sesha Ananta whose five heads are curled over that of the deity: South Asia, India, Malabar Coast, 17th - 18th century
Part of a figure carved in teak of Vishnu reposing in a trance on the coils of the serpent Sesha Ananta whose five heads are curled over that of the deity: South Asia, India, Malabar Coast, 17th - 18th century
Detachable headdress for a figure of Krishna as a crawling infant, used in religious observances, brass: India, 19th century
Part of a bronze figure of an elephant carrying a howdah or open canopy with two attendants painted red, yellow and black: India
Part of a bronze figure of an elephant carrying a howdah or open canopy with two attendants painted red, yellow and black: India
Part of a bronze figure of an elephant carrying a howdah or open canopy with two attendants painted red, yellow and black: India
Part of a bronze figure of an elephant carrying a howdah or open canopy with two attendants painted red, yellow and black: India
Part of a bronze figure of an elephant carrying a howdah or open canopy with two attendants painted red, yellow and black: India