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Chihuly at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Indian Silver for the Raj
Gesture: Judith Godwin and Abstract Expressionism
Diana Al-Hadid: Trace of a Fictional Third
Fine Arts & Flowers
Visions of France
Doodle 4 Google
Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era
Maharaja: The Splendors of India's Great Kings
Jacob Lawrence: The Legend of John Brown
Making History: 20th Century African American Art
The Mourners: Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy
Elvis at 21
The Jewels of Jean Schlumberger
Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb
The Majestic and The Mundane
Tristin Lowe: Mocha Dick
Modern Masters: Sean Scully and John Walker
Temples and Shrines in Japan
Nature Reined: The Paintings of Clarice Smith
Xu Bing: Tobacco Project
Faberge Revealed
Scraps: British Sporting Drawings from the Paul Mellon Collection
Virginia's Museum of Fine Art: 75 Years of Collecting for the Commonwealth
Dynasty and Divinity: Ife Art in Ancient Nigeria
A Celebration of Print: 500 Years of Graphic Art
Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris
Civil War Drawings from the Becker Collection
The Fleeting Glimpse
Apocalypse: Monumental Paintings of the 1980s
Celebration of Spring: Woodblock Prints by Kawase Hasui
Jun Kaneko
Sally Mann: The Flesh and The Spirit
Corot to Cezanne: French Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
American Quilts: Selections from the Winterthur Collection
German Expressionist Art: Selections from the Fischer Collection
Chuck Close: People Who Matter to Me
Darkroom: Photography and New Media in South Africa since 1950
Fine Arts & Flowers
Tiffany: Color and Light
Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris
American Art from the McGlothlin Collection
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Five-Piece Tea Service | P.Orr & Sons, Madras, 1876.

Indian Silver for the Raj

Jul 07, 2012 – Apr 07, 2013Focus Galleries 1 & 2

Indian Silver for the Raj features selections from a magnificent collection of colonial Indian silver recently acquired by VMFA, and complements this summer's banner exhibition, Maharaja: The Splendors of India's Great Kings.

Free admission

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The first gallery investigates the Anglo-Indian encounter through three types of silver objects: the calling-card case, so essential to English etiquette; the rosewater sprinkler, similarly indispensable to Indian protocol; and the tea service, the quintessential meeting ground of these two cultures. The second gallery explores the stylistic variety of Raj-period silver objects produced in different regions of India. Indian Silver for the Raj explores both cultural convergence and regional diversity.

3 in 30: Raj Silver (Tue, Oct 9, 11 am & Thu, Oct 11, 6:30 pm)