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In India the practice of covering furnishings with sheets of precious metal is an ancient one, and was the norm for furniture intended for deities and royalty. The underside of this footstool is signed in Gujarati by the makers: 'Mistry Raghunath Tribhuvan's children Chhaganlal and Vrajlal'. The footstool was made for the Delhi Exhibition of 1903-1904. This was a vast fair of Indian arts and manufactures organised by Lord Curzon, the Viceroy of India, to coincide with the Delhi Durbar, held to commemorate the accession to the British throne of King Edward VII. Lord Curzon was himself an avid collector of Indian art and purchased this piece at the Delhi Exhibition.","physicalDescription":"Teak, covered with repousse silver, chased ad punched. The square table-like top rests on four lion feet. The whole visible surface is covered with silver, working in low relief repousse work, heightened by chasing and a punched group. The symetrical ornament is composed of conventional flowers and leaves interlaced with arabesque-tracery. 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George Nathaniel, Marques  Curzon of Kedleston, K.G.,  G.C.S.I., G.C.I.E., D.C.I.\r\n\r\n\tGiven by the Marchioness  Curzon and the Hon. Francis  N. Curzon. Register entry 24  May 1927.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Footstool, teak silver, Baroda, India, C19","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Jaffer, Amin <font u>Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum</font u>. London : V&A Publications, 2001. 416 p., ill. ISBN 1851773185.p.312, pl.127."},{"reference":{"text":"Swallow, D., Stronge, S., Crill, R., Koezuka, T., editor and translator, \"The Art of the Indian Courts. 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