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Stories in stone the lost history of Indian sculpted deities
Friederike Voigt explains how research carried out 200 years ago has helped her piece together the lost history of sculpted deities brought to Scotland from IndiaVoigt, Friederike
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Book chapter
Orientalist collecting of Indian sculpture
Roger Jeffery in this book has brought together 10 original, well-researched and well-written essays which bring to life the presence of India in the capital city of Scotland, Edinburgh. On the surface Edinburgh is a purely Scottish city: its `India' past is not easily visible. Yet, from the late 17th...Voigt, Friederike
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Journal article
Development of a non-destructive method for underglaze painted tiles – demonstrated by the analysis of Persian objects from the nineteenth century.
The paper presents an analytical method developed for the nondestructive study of nineteenth-century Persian polychrome underglaze painted tiles. As an example, 9 tiles from French and German museum collections were investigated. Before this work was undertaken little was known about the materials used in pottery at that time, although the...Reiche, I ; Röhrs, S ; Salomon, Joseph ; Kanngießer, Birgit ; Höhn, Yvonne …
archaeometry, Persian , Raman spectroscopy, X-ray , Uranium, and underglaze
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Journal article
Panjab Connections: a Young Roots Heritage Project at National Museums Scotland
The Panjab Connections project focused on the fascinating story of Maharaja Duleep Singh, widely regarded as the first Sikh resident in Scotland. He was a Maharaja aged five, but by the age of fifteen Duleep Singh was deposed and exiled to Britain, where he spent his teenage years in Perthshire....Voigt, Friederike ; Nicolson, Rosanna ; Bennison, Laura
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Qadscharische Bildfliesen im Ethnologischen Museum Berlin, exhibition catalogue
Das Ethnologische Museum besitzt 25 Fliesen, auf denen Szenen aus dem Alltag in Teheran um 1890 dargestellt sind: Läden im Basar, Handwerker, fliegende Händler und Garköche mit ihrer Kundschaft, Lastträger, Bettler und Derwische. In ihrer Art erinnern diese genrehaften Bilder an historische Fotografien. Unter Einbeziehung zahlreicher, bislang nicht gezeigter Objekte...Voigt, Friederike