Decorative arts of the Mughal period reading list
Aziz, Abdul, Thrones, Tents and Their Furniture Used by the Indian Mughals, Lahore, n.d.
Aziz, Abdul, The Imperial Treasury of the Indian Mughuls, reprint edition Jayyed Press, Delhi, 1972
Aziz, Abdul, Arms and jewellery of the Indian Mughuls, Lahore, 1947
Archer, M., C. Rowell and R. Skelton, Treasures from India: The Clive Collection at Powis Castle, London, Herbert Press/National Trust, 1987
Birdwood, Sir George, The Industrial Arts of India, London, 1880
Birdwood, Sir George, The Arts of India as Illustrated in the Collections of HRH the Prince of Wales, London, 1881
Born, W. Ivory Powder Flasks from the Mughal Period, Ars Islamica, vol. IX, 1942, pp 93-111
Brand, M. and G. Lowry, Akbar's India: Art from the Mughal City of Victory, New York, 1985
Chandra, M. A Brass Jewel Casket of Akbar-Jehangir Period, Roopa Lekha, vol.II, no.3, 1940, pp.9-13
Chandra, P. Two Early Mughal Metal Cups, Bulletin of the Prince of Wales Museum, no. 5, Bombay, 1955-7, pp. 57-60
Crill, Rosemary, John Guy, Veronica Murphy, Susan Stronge and Deborah Swallow, Arts of India: 1550-1900, London 1990 (repr. 1999)
Delhi Museum of Archaeology, Loan Exhibition of Antiquities Coronation Durbar, 1911: An Illustrated Selection of the Principal Exhibits, Calcutta (1912)
Digby, S. A Corpus of Mughal Glass, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies,
vol.VI, part 3, 1973
Digby, S. The Mother-of-Pearl overlaid furniture of Gujarat: an Indian handicraft of the 16th and
17th centuries, in R. Skelton et al., (eds.) Facets of Indian Art, London, 1986, pp 213-22
Dikshit, M.G. History of Indian Glass, Bombay, 1969
Dwivedi, V.P. Indian Ivories, Delhi, 1976
Egerton, W. An Illustrated Handbook of Indian Arms, London, 1888
Elgood, Robert, Hindu Arms and Ritual: Arms and Armour from India 1400-1865, Leiden 2004
Elgood, Robert, Mughal Arms and the Indian Court Tradition, in Beatriz Chadour-Sampson and Nigel Israel, eds,
Jewelled Arts of Mughal India, Jewellery Studies vol. 10, 2004, pp. 76-98
Hendley, T.H. Memorials of the Jeypore Exhibition, London, 1883
Hendley, T.H. Ulwar and its Art Treasures, London, 1988
Hendley, T.H. Damascening on Steel or Iron, as Practised in India, London, 1892
Hendley, T.H. Indian Jewellery (vol. XII of the Journal of Indian Art and Industry), London
Ivanov, A.A., V.G. Lukonin and L.S. Smesova, Yuvyelirniye izdyeliya vostoka (Oriental jewellery from the collection of the Special Treasury, the State Hermitage Oriental Department), Moscow, 1984
Jacob, S.S. and T. H. Hendley, Jeypore Enamels, London, 1886
Jenkins, M. and M. Keene, Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum; The Al-Sabah Collection, London, 1983
Koezuka, T. (ed. and translator into Japanese) The Art of the Indian Courts; Miniature Painting and Decorative Arts, Victoria and Albert Museum/NHK Kinki Media Plan, 1993 (catalogue by S.Stronge and R. Crill; captions in English)
Krishna, A. (ed.) Chhavi: Golden Jubilee Volume, Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi, 1971
Krishna, A. (ed.) Chhavi-2: Rai Krishnadasa Felicitation Volume, Bharat Kala Bhavan, Varanasi, 1981
Lal, K. National Museum Collection; Bidri Ware, New Delhi, 1990
Leth, André Islamic Arms and Armour from Private Danish Collections, Copenhagen, 1982
London ( V&A) The Indian Heritage; Court Life and Arts Under Mughal Rule, London, 1982
Markel, S.(ed) The World of Jade, Marg Publications, Bombay, 1992
Markel, S.(ed) Western Imports and the Nature of Later Indian Glassware, Asian Art, vol.VI/4 Fall
1993, pp.34-59
Markel, S.(ed) Non-Imperial Mughal Sources for Jades and Jade Simulants in South Asia, in Beatriz Chadour-Sampson and Nigel Israel, eds, Jewelled Arts of Mughal India, Jewellery Studies vol. 10, 2004, pp. 68-75
Melikian-Chirvani, A.S. Studies in Hindustani Metalwork: On Some Sultanate Stirrups, in
C. Adle(ed.) Art et societé dans le monde Iranien, Paris, 1982
Melikian-Chirvani, A.S. Islamic Metalwork as a Source on Cultural History. Section II. The Making of Islamic Culture in India: The Evidence of Metalwork, Arts and the Islamic World, vol. I no. 1, 1982-3,
pp 36-44, 78-80
Melikian-Chirvani, A.S. Sa'ida-ye Gilani and the Iranian Style Jades of Hindustan, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, New Series/Volume 13, 1999, pp. 83-140
Mukharji, T.N. Art Manufactures of India, Calcutta, 1888
Pant, G.N. Catalogue of Edged Arms and Armour in the Salarjung Museum, Hyderabad, 1989
Rawson, P. The Indian Sword, Copenhagen, 1967
Riazuddin, A. History of Handicrafts; Pakistan-India, National Hijra Council, Pakistan, 1988
Skelton, R. The Shah Jahan Cup, Victoria & Albert Museum Bulletin, vol. II, no. 3, July 1966, pp. 109-10
Skelton, R. The Relations Between the Chinese and Indian Jade Carving Traditions, in Watson, W.,
The Westward Influence of the Chinese Arts from the 14th to the 18th century, Colloquies on
Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 3, London, University of London, 1972, pp. 98-110
Skelton, R. (et al., eds.) Facets of Indian Art, London, 1986
Stronge, S. Bidri Ware: Inlaid Metalwork from India, London, 1985
Stronge, S. Colonel Guthrie's Collection; Jades of the Mughal Era, Oriental Art, volume XXXIX,
No 4, Winter 1993-94 pp. 4-13
Stronge, S. Gold and Silver in 16th and 17th Century Mughal India, in Vasallo e Silva, Nuno (ed.), A Heranca de Rauluchantim/The Heritage of Rauluchantim, Lisbon, 1996. pp.62-81
Stronge, S. The Sublime Thrones of the Mughal Emperors of Hindustan, in in Beatriz Chadour-Sampson and Nigel Israel, eds, Jewelled Arts of Mughal India, Jewellery Studies vol. 10, 2004, pp. 52-67
Taipei: National Palace Museum, Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, by Teng Shu-p'ing, trs. by D. M. Kamen, Taipei, 1983
Vogel, J.P. Tile Mosaics of the Lahore Fort, Archaeological Survey of India, vol. 41, Calcutta
Watt, G., Indian Art at Delhi, 1903, Calcutta, 1903
Welch, S.C. The Art of Mughal India, New York, 1964
Welch, S.C. India, Art and Culture 1300-1900, New York, 1985
Wigington, R. The Firearms of Tipu Sultan 1783-1799, Hatfield, 1992
Wilkinson, T.H. Indian Colonial Silver: European Silversmiths in India (1790-1910), London, 1973
Wilkinson, T.H. The Makers of Indian Colonial Silver: A Register of European Goldsmiths, Silversmiths, Jewellers, Watchmakers and Clockmakers in India and Their Marks 1760-1860, London, 1987
Zebrowski, M. Decorative Arts of the Mughal Period, in Gray, B (ed) The Arts of India, London, 1981, pp. 177-89
Zebrowski, M. Bidri: Metalware from the Islamic Courts of India, Art East, no 1, 1982, pp 26-9
Zebrowski, M. Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, Alexandra Press, London, 1997
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