L´Inde des Princes: La donation Jean et Krishnâ Riboud

Reunion des musees nationaux, Paris, France, 2000 Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. French and English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24 x 28 cm; 1,2 Kg; 165 with colour illustrations.; Used book with signs of wear on the dust jacket, namely chips and tears. The dust jacket is now protected with a clearcover. Interior in very good condition.; Containing fifty four objects covering the 17th through the 19th centuries and illustrating the princely arts of Mughal India, of the Deccani sultanates and of the Rajput kingdoms, as well as twenty jewels from Northern India, the Jean and Krishnâ Riboud donation represents an incredible endowment for the Guimet museum's Indian collections. There are translucent jade and rock crystal cups enriched with rubies and emeralds, chalcedony and jade dagger handles sprinkled with precious stones, flasks and powder horns made from exquisitely carved ivory, spice boxes and huqqa bases with enamelled decorations, artefacts made from shimmering mother of pearl, copper or silver encrusted bidri, vanished terracotta tiles with vegetable decorations, as well as sumptuous jewelry combining the brilliance of gems with the sparkle of polychrome enamels; all these artefacts add up to an amazingly seductive evocation of the sophisticated splendour of the courtly arts in the Indian kindgoms..