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Devdas (2002) dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

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Today’s #ootd [Nov 5] is this evening dress from around 1900-1925. It was originally made from an Indian sari and modified for European taste. It was worn by Abigail Rockefeller, the wife of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Girl Musician with a Dancing Peacock, 1800s, India.

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Sari

India, Maharashtra, 1750-1800

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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Sari, 1850-1900

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

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Sari of silk with gold-wrapped thread, Central India, 19th century. Victoria & Albert Museum.

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Shadow puppet of character ‘Among Sari’.

Java, Late 1700s - early 1800s (Before 1816)

Made of hide, horn, gold leaf. Carved, painted and gilded.

the British Museum

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Writing Table, made 1774-80 by David Roentgen

From the Victoria & Albert Museum

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A silk round gown from 1795

From the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

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Flowers in a Glass Vase, C. 1704

Rachel Ruysch

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A large white jade ‘prunus and lingzhi’ vase and cover, Qing dynasty, Qianlong period (1736–1795).

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Pen box, 1700s, India.

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Bracelet, 1700s-1800s, Japan.

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Statuette of a rat in a rice basket, 1700-1800, Japan.

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Banyan

1760s

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Luis Egidio Meléndez (1716-1780) "Still life with watermelons and apples in a landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain