Anglo-Indian rosewood desk inlaid with ivory

An image of Anglo-Indian desk. Production Place: Vizagapatam, near Madras, in Southern India. Rosewood inlaid with finely engraved ivory, with silver handles, c.1750-1760. Was on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from Lady Hayter. Belonged to Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet (1736-1791), a British administrator in India. Formerly loan AAL.1-2012.

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Anglo-Indian desk. Production Place: Vizagapatam, near Madras, in Southern India. Rosewood inlaid with finely engraved ivory, with silver handles, c.1750-1760. Was on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge from Lady Hayter. Belonged to Sir Thomas Rumbold, 1st Baronet (1736-1791), a British administrator in India. Formerly loan AAL.1-2012.

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Accession Number: M.3-2016
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Mark Box
Image height: 768 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Windows)
Filesize: 173.84kB
Exposure time: 2/1
ISO Speed: 200
Fnumber: 16/1
Captured: 2012:04:17 05:22:37

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