From the Life in the Sikh Kingdoms collection ·
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A throne could speak before a ruler said a word. The surviving throne made for Maharaja Ranjit Singh in Lahore was crafted by Hafez Muhammad Multani in the early nineteenth century. Its gold-covered wooden structure, octagonal plan and curling floral decoration brought courtly authority and exceptional craftsmanship together.
The British East India Company took it from the Lahore treasury after annexing Punjab in 1849. It later entered the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Look closer: the surviving throne has a rounded back and an hourglass-shaped base on eight feet. This collectible is an imaginative campaign illustration, not a photograph or exact reconstruction of that object.
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