Room 41: South Asia
The Nehru Gallery displays jewellery, textiles, furniture, arms and armour, metalwork and paintings of the Mughal and British periods (16th-19th centuries)
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Room 42: Islamic Art
The Jameel Gallery houses over 400 objects, including ceramics, textiles, carpets, metalwork, glass and woodwork, which date from the great days of the Islamic caliphate of…
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Room 45: Japan
Room 45 contains a wide range of treasures from Japan including swords and armour, netsuke (small carvings), wood-block prints, textiles, lacquer, ceramics and other articl…
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Room 47a: South East Asian & Himalayan Art
This room displays a combination of South East Asian and Himalayan art. Some of the finest items in the Himalayan collection include important early Nepalese bronze sculptu…
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Room 47b: South Asian Sculpture
A display of sculptures and devotional objects from the Indian subcontinent
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Room 47g: Korea
Room 47g displays objects made between 500 and 2000 AD which reflect the love of natural forms that pervades the decorative arts of Korea
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Room 56c: Britain & the Indies
This room looks at the development of British art and design in the late 17th and early 18th centuries as a result of Britain's burgeoning trade with Asia and the Americas.…
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Room 125c: Influences from Beyond Europe
This gallery shows objects from Victorian Britain when retailers sold a growing range of goods imported from Asia and the Islamic world.
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Room 137: Ceramics Study Galleries Asia and Europe
The Curtain Foundation Gallery houses the greater part of the V&A’s ceramics collection. In this room you will find Asian and Middle Eastern ceramics, and pottery from main…
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Room 145: World Ceramics
This second principal gallery offers a chronological and world-wide introduction to ceramics with objects from the Far East and South East Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
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