The Mother-Of-Pearl Overlay Furniture of Gujarat: A Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century Indian Handicraft and Its Markets in the Islamic East and Europ

by Simon Digby

This volume examines the manufacture and marketing of mother-of-pearl overlay furniture in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Gujarat, identifying for the first time the furniture's place of production, datings and chronological sequence, and intended markets. Digby surveys a wide range of evidence--including inventories of European collections, the testimony of travelers of the era, and references and inscriptions in Persian and other oriental languages--and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197280099
• ISBN13: 9780197280096
• Release Date: November 2099
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 100 Pages