Side Chair
Designer
Bhai Ram Singh
(Indian, 1858 - 1916)
Designer
John Lockwood Kipling
(English, 1837 - 1911)
Dateca. 1889
MediumPadouk with brass and modern reproduction unmercerized cotton with synthetic dye
DimensionsOverall: 41 15/16 × 20 1/16 × 20 1/16 inches (106.48 × 50.98 × 50.98 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through exchange of the gifts of Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Burnap
Object number2015.24.2
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InscribedNone
MarkingsNone
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DescriptionSide chair of intricately carved wood with floral motifs on the chair back, sides and front legs. With a carved back of a lotus flower. The crestrail with a central horned mask flanked by seated birds. The legs of the chair are capped with brass, while the seat retains its intricately woven cotton string seat.Gallery LabelMade in Lahore (now part of Pakistan), this chair incorporates Indian motifs—a central lotus flower on the back and stylized birds on the crest rail—and the traditional form of an English chair of the early 1800s. The chair is shown with a new woven seat that reproduces the pattern and colors of the original. This chair was a collaboration between designers Bhai Ram Singh and John Lockwood Kipling, the principal of the Mayo School of Arts in Lahore. Kipling’s life and work in India during the British Raj informed his son Rudyard Kipling, author of The Jungle Book.
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