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Englefield House, Berkshire
Englefield House, Berkshire – Home to the Benyon family Englefield House, Berkshire Processes and Practices by Kate Smith Please note that this case study was first published on...
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Englefield House Case Study: Inheriting India
Detail of ivory inlaid work. Like Richard, Mary Benyon used objects to affirm familial ties and express affection across time and space. Before she died in 1776, she was keen to use the power she held...
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Ivory Furniture Case Study
The Afterlife of Objects: Anglo-Indian Ivory Furniture in Britain By Kate Smith Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in July 2014. This study was last checked...
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Ivory Furniture Case Study: Purchase
Figure 1. Balls Park, Hertfordshire. Purchase Edward Harrison (1674-1732) inherited Balls Park in Hertfordshire after the death of his father Richard Harrison in 1726.[1] Prior to establishing himself...
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Ivory furniture case study: Sale
Sale Figure 8. ‘Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Fort William, Bengal, 1774-85’, George Romney, 1795. © British Library Board, F1. Throughout the late eighteenth century Warren...
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Ivory furniture case study: Recirculation
Figure 9. Basildon Park, Berkshire. Recirculation By studying examples of ivory furniture situated in British country houses in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, we can begin to...
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Conclusion As in the case of the Englefield case study, this study has found that ivory objects were important to EIC families. Bequeathed between generations, families valued ivory inlaid cabinets...
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