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India Unboxed: The Anglo Indian Desk - A true hybrid of visual cultures

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This is the final film in our India Unboxed series celebrating India's 70th year of independence.
This Anglo-Indian desk, of rosewood with lac-engraved ivory and silver handles, was made in the 1750s by an unknown maker at Vizagapatam, on the Coromandel Coast of East India, an important port along the historic trade route between Europe and the Far East.
Although the form is western, the finely engraved, very delicate and sprightly floral decoration is Indian, drawing its inspiration from motifs in the Mughal style found on Chintz fabrics, making it a truly hybrid object that 'belongs to the visual culture of both East and West'.

This desk is as illuminating as it is enigmatic – it tells so many stories but it keeps just as many secrets.

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