Thom Richardson FSA worked as a curator of oriental art at the British Museum and Manchester City Art Gallery, then as a curator of armour and Asian collections at the Royal Armouries, retiring as deputy master in 2016. He has a PhD in history from the University of York published in 2016 as The Tower Armoury in the Fourteenth Century, is author of over 150 books and academic articles on arms and armour, and has been the editor of the Journal of the Arms and Armour Society and Arms & Armour. He is now retired and works as a consultant to museums in the UK and abroad while continuing to write about historical arms and armour.Paula Turner has worked on a great variety of books, including a spell as head of publications at the Royal Armouries where arms and armour became something of a speciality. She is now concentrating on the study of coins from the ancient and early medieval periods, especially those of Rome and South Asia. For this she is preparing the second edition of her book, Roman Coins from India, and is the editor of the Journal of the Oriental Numismatic Society.

• Foreword (Xavier Bray) Preface (Thom Richardson) Introduction (Thom Richardson and Paula Turner) The provenance of the ‘Oriental’ arms and armour in the Wallace Collection (Suzanne Higgott) List of sales (Suzanne Higgott)CATALOGUE SOUTH ASIA: The Mughal Empire · The Deccan · Mysore · South India · Sri Lanka · Sindh · Gujarat · Awadh and Lucknow · Delhi · Rajasthan · Punjab and the Sikh Empire AFGHANISTAN, NEPAL, TIBET AND BHUTANIRANTHE CAUCASUSTHE OTTOMAN WORLD: Ottoman Turkey · Balkans · Greece and Crete · Algeria, North Africa and ArabiaTHE ASANTE KINGDOMSOUTHEAST AND EAST ASIA: Southeast Asia · China · Japan APPENDICES Works of art from beyond Western EuropeTobacco pipes and accessoriesSteelSelect glossary of termsInscriptionsList of collectionsReferencesIndex of objects by OA numberIndex of names

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