AGO Art Talks and Tours
Made for Maharajas
- Author: Podcast
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- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 1:23:22
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Synopsis
Amin Jaffer speaks about western luxury goods made for Indian princes in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The talk explores the superb and extraordinary commissions made for maharajas by western luxury houses Cartier, Chaumet and Boucheron. Jaffer contextualizes this appetite for luxury goods within the broader historical context of shifting taste and power between India and the West.