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拍品專文
The stepped book-shelves, with palm-wrapped trusses, relate to a pattern issued in W. Smee & Sons The Cabinet-Maker's Assistant, 1850.
A Doorgapersaud Ghose is recorded as a Calcutta banian (an Indian broker working with or for Europeans), with close connections to American merchants there. He was described in 1804 by Dudely Pickman of Salem as 'a shrewd man and industrious when pressed in business' (quoted in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India & Ceylon, London, 2001, pp. 230-231). As Ghose is a very common name in Calcutta, he may well be unrelated to N. Ghose, however it is likely that N. Ghose & Co. were Calcutta export-furniture traders. There is a table in the Vestry of St. John's Church, Calcutta, also stamped by N. Ghose & Co. (information kindly supplied by Charles Grieg, Esq.). The present bookcase stamped by N. Ghose may well be a copy of the other one made by J.M. Edmond, as Indian cabinet-makers frequently copied English cabinet-maker's work.
A Doorgapersaud Ghose is recorded as a Calcutta banian (an Indian broker working with or for Europeans), with close connections to American merchants there. He was described in 1804 by Dudely Pickman of Salem as 'a shrewd man and industrious when pressed in business' (quoted in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India & Ceylon, London, 2001, pp. 230-231). As Ghose is a very common name in Calcutta, he may well be unrelated to N. Ghose, however it is likely that N. Ghose & Co. were Calcutta export-furniture traders. There is a table in the Vestry of St. John's Church, Calcutta, also stamped by N. Ghose & Co. (information kindly supplied by Charles Grieg, Esq.). The present bookcase stamped by N. Ghose may well be a copy of the other one made by J.M. Edmond, as Indian cabinet-makers frequently copied English cabinet-maker's work.