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View full screenPainting in miniature style entitled Casualty of War: A Portrait of Maharaja Duleep Singh, a half-length portrait of Maharaja Duleep Singh surrounded by quotations, locations and possessions associated with his life and death, watercolour/poster paint and metallic gilding gold dust on mountboard: England, Merseyside, by The Singh Twins, 2013
V.2013.31
The Singh Twins, 1994 - 2023 (fl.), Artists
Prenton, Cheshire, England, Northern Europe
2013
Poster paint, Gouache, Gold, dust, Mountboard
Depicted: Singh, Duleep, Maharaja, 1838 - 1893
Artistic Legacies (08 Feb 2019)
National Museum of Scotland
Indian Encounters (14 Nov 2014 - 01 Mar 2015)
National Museum of Scotland
From Stromness to the Punjab: Sir John Login, Maharaja Duleep Singh and the Treasures
of Lahore (01 Apr 2014 - 30 Sep 2014)
Stromness Museum
FRIEDERIKE VOIGT, ROSANNA NICOLSON AND LAURA BENNISON. 2017. ‘PANJAB CONNECTIONS’: A YOUNG ROOTS HERITAGE PROJECT AT NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND. Journal of Museum Ethnography, no. 30, pp. 24-48
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One of a group of items from the Westlake Trotter Collection - a miniature of Andrew Lumisden, paste medallion by James Tassie, inscribed and dated Andrew Lumisden Esquire, Tassie F. 1784
String of thirty nine glass and paste beads of various colours and patterns, from a grave of a woman and infant, Westness, Orkney, 850 - 900 AD
Pendant cross of gold set with pastes, perforated and enamelled, with three pearl drops on the arms: French, 16th century
Figure of Buddha in brass, reclining in the parinirvana attitude, with a headband of mirror glass and coloured pastes: South-Eastern Asia, Myanmar
Folding fan with carved and pierced mother-of-pearl sticks and guards, and single leaf painted with a scene of gods and goddesses seated at a table, part of the Richmond Inglis Collection: c. 1740 - 1750
Knife with steel blade and handle, composed of sections of ivory, ebony and amber, decorated with pastes imitating garnets and sapphires: Italian, Venice, 16th century
Knife with steel blade and handle, composed of sections of ivory, ebony and amber, decorated with pastes imitating garnets and sapphires: Italian, Venice, 16th century
Knife with steel blade and handle, composed of sections of ivory, ebony and amber, decorated with pastes imitating garnets and sapphires: Italian, Venice, 16th century
Silver snuff box with gilt interior, mother-of-pearl panel from Guandong, China, in lid and inscription commemorating Captain William Wilkinson, a former East India Company sea officer, who commanded a frigate in the Chilean fleet of Admiral Lord Cochrane, by silversmith John Crichton, Scotland, 1859
Gold gem set ring; the central emerald cut garnet or ruby (?) in collet setting; the shoulders with scroll openwork, the collets set with old cut diamonds or paste, with reeded gold shank; the reverse with circular glazed locket, containing woven panel of hair
A rose gold cameo and diamond (or paste ?) set ring with accompanying box; the oval hard-stone cameo depicting a male bust (James VIII?) in profile set in a border of old cut diamonds; the reverse set with glazed locket containing a lock of hair, with the initials ‘IR’ ‘VIII’ surmounted by a crown