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Royal Armouries image collection.
The Royal Armouries images are back online, here are some links. As with the Met's collection, the Royal Armouries have some amazing items, huge amounts of armor and weapons, and just like the Met, many of their items have still not been photographed, others are so badly photographed that the images are not much use, and there are the usual description mistakes, you would think that such a prestigious institution would get that part right at least.
Persia https://collections.royalarmouries.o...sort=relevance Turkey https://collections.royalarmouries.o...sort=relevance India https://collections.royalarmouries.o...sort=relevance Quote:
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Hi Strech
You are amazing to find pictures! Very useful and first mistake they did it's a tiger dagger from Northern India. Best, Kubur |
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Here is another very weird thing they have done with several images, they surround the item being photographed with pieces of black paper? This is an Ottoman kilij, but they have labeled it as a Quote:
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Oh i can tell you why they did these mistakes.
First the decoration is ottoman baroque, clearly with European influences, but it's not European. Second for a lot of people all wootz blade is Persian. It could be... |
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They do have some nice weapons and armor though. Here is another kilij, this one clearly has a Persian blade
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Here is an interesting sword...
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Looks like a sossun to me
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Here is a real interesting one.........
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Here is another glaring mistake, this is a "tsukubo" but is it not a "sode garami", that is another type of tool used for catching / holding criminals, there are three such tools which together are called torimono sandōgu (three tools of arresting).
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Speaking from personal experience ( one month data inputting the Littlecote collection for the RA) there is something of dislocation between the knowledgeable and the administration at the museum. This is also a huge collection, many of the labels went on a very long time ago, up to a century and a half in some cases, and it will be a long time before anyone gets round to changing them. The Littlecote collection was acquired more than 20 years before I was given the job of putting it on their computer database. they have a huge collection, they are doing their best at a time of falling budgets and a lack of interest from the the presiding authority.
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Many people can not travel to these museums and the online images are the only way they have to gain access to what is in them, other people base their visits to these museums on what they know in advance that they will see, it is in their best interest to figure out how to speed up the process, there are many ways to do this such as with students via an intern program. |
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There are some errors that are so stupid that I do not want even to mention them...
Well, I will:-) Object XXVI B.144 : a dagger labeled as all-steel arrow. XXVID.79: a Firangi called dagger( peshkabz) These are so stupid that one cannot even suspect professional errors. I guess they just quickly hired an undergraduate student or an equivalent to do the job and this kid had randomly matched pics with descriptions. That's what one gets for a minimal wage:-) Budget cuts:-)))))))))) Last edited by ariel; 13th May 2016 at 05:32 PM. |
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