1592984590000 1458207790000 Standard Record object-208433 1747159854773 1691688212000 1747159409017 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-208433 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208433 8096a462-efee-360e-9db5-c42ff396accb 18 reference term-67107 adlib-term-67107 a60d0be2-2105-3b16-a693-a7206db57074 furniture reference term-39778 adlib-term-39778 8bd60ed6-968d-3faf-8ad5-b4e4ee9bb245 silver Handles reference term-40149 adlib-term-40149 89c91a11-c946-3355-a7f0-e9d757f7a1d5 ivory Inlay Ivory reference term-27645 adlib-term-27645 c489df47-4067-3e45-80d3-a0c71cedaaf8 inlay (process) Applied Arts Anglo-Indian desk of rosewood inlaid with ivory, with silver handles M.3-2016 1 accession number M.3-2016 208433 priref 208433 The Fitzwilliam Museum old loan number AAL.1-2012 The Fitzwilliam Museum entry form number 1061 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208433 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/208433 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of inheritance tax, from the estate of Elizabeth Anne Chubb, Lady Hayter reference agent-150141 adlib-agent-150141 aa66239a-2b6d-36c3-80b2-cf5f2b976e97 H.M. Government 2016 2016 2016 allocated 1750 1750 CE 1750 circa 1750 1760 1 1760 CE 1760 1760 maker reference agent-149652 adlib-agent-149652 0d4f90dc-b166-3d4b-b0db-25f4118b6e98 Unknown Although the identities of the Indian craftsmen who made this desk are unknown, we know that it was once owned by the notoriously corrupt British politician and colonial administrator Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st baronet (1736–91), who was a Director of the East India Company and Governor of Madras (1777–80) before being accused of huge fraud. In the 18th century, these inlaid pieces of furniture from Visakhapatnam were sought after by discerning collectors: Viscount Fitzwilliam (the Museum’s founder) owned a Visakhapatnam bookcase, now in the Peabody Museum, Salem (USA). From around 1683, Visakhapatnam, a port on India’s east coast, became a centre for the manufacture of 'Anglo-Indian' furniture and textiles made for export to Europe. It is likely that British colonial forces sent British designers to India to teach Indian craftsmen how to apply their traditional ivory-working skills to the production of high-quality furniture of traditional European form. Here, a kneehole desk, a form developed in England in the early 18th century, is decorated with complex ivory inlay, the floral patterns based on Indian plants. 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