Quails in Art!
By QB Curator
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Looks like we're not the only ones captivated by quails! The curators at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia chose this quail tea set as one of their favorite picks in the museum:
Made of silver and ivory, the tea set is housed in the museum's South Asian collection and is specifically from India. Part of a larger collection of 91 silver pieces, Tea Service in the Shape of Quails, created by Oomersee Mawjee, Jr. from a family of famous silversmiths, helps make up the largest Colonial Indian silver collection outside of India.
During the British Colonial period in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, the two vastly different countries influenced one another's art. According to the VMFA, “Silver made for British-Colonial tables explores the interplay of European and Indian aesthetics, production, and patronage through objects that are at once approachable and exotic.”
Starting on June 30, the museum will be showing its exhibit entitled Indian Silver for the Raj in which Tea Service in the Shape of Quails and other silver pieces will have special prominence.
During the British Colonial period in India in the nineteenth and early twentieth-centuries, the two vastly different countries influenced one another's art. According to the VMFA, “Silver made for British-Colonial tables explores the interplay of European and Indian aesthetics, production, and patronage through objects that are at once approachable and exotic.”
Starting on June 30, the museum will be showing its exhibit entitled Indian Silver for the Raj in which Tea Service in the Shape of Quails and other silver pieces will have special prominence.
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