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Article: Ivory-inlaid and veneered furniture of Vizagapatnam, India, 1700-1825.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- February 1, 2001
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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, who introduced a demand for western-style furniture. The timber required was readily available from nearby forests, and foreign timber and imported mounts and mirrors could all be easily landed ...
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