21 November 2015 – 28 March 2016. Spectacular objects, drawn from a single private collection, will explore the broad themes of tradition and modernity in Indian jewlery.
Spectacular
objects, drawn from a single private collection, will explore the broad themes
of tradition and modernity in Indian jewellery. Highlights will include Mughal
jades, a rare jewelled gold finial from the throne of Tipu Sultan, and pieces
that reveal the dramatic changes that took place in Indian jewellery design
during the early 20th century.
The exhibition will examine the influence that
India had on avant-garde European jewellery made by Cartier and other leading
houses and will conclude with contemporary pieces made by JAR and Bhagat, which
are inspired by a creative fusion of Mughal motifs and Art Deco ‘Indian’
designs.
Sponsored by Wartski
Founded
150 years ago in North Wales, Wartski is celebrating its anniversary by
sponsoring this major exhibition of jewellery. Wartski is a family business
specialising in goldsmiths' work, antique jewellery, Russian works of art and
especially that of Carl Fabergé. Over the years the firm has sold many
outstanding masterpieces including thirteen of Fabergé’s Imperial Easter Eggs.
Its customers have included six generations of the British Royal family as well
as celebrated artists, musicians, actors and museum curators throughout the
world. From the early 1950’s, the firm’s late chairman Kenneth Snowman published
a number of scholarly books, elevating the business to a new level of
excellence at which expertise and research were not by-products of the trade,
but primary objectives in their own right. Wartski – The First 150 Years by
Geoffrey Munn was published by ACC in May 2015.
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