Olkaan Nishtah has been honoured by being included in the prestigious – The Jewellery Trendbook 2024 Forecast https://www.trendvisionforecasting.com/ The Jewellery Trendbook is the definitive guide to trends in the International jewellery market. Divided by thematic areas, The Jewellery Trendbook describes evolution of the consumption in the luxury market and takes Continue Reading
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Precious gem bangle Pair
Handmade from a single piece of extra fine natural Indian Chalcedony. 22 karat gold Kundan setting with Indian cut fancy light yellow natural Diamonds. Designed and overseen in their making by Shanane Davis for Olkaan Nishtah olkaannishtah@gmail.com The history of the Indian Precious Gemstone bangle For a thousand years gemstone Continue Reading
Adhiraj Singh with His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla
His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla of The Sheikhdom of Umm Al Quwain receiving a safa (turban) from Graf Adhiraj Singh giving our esteems from our family to his. His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla invited Adhiraj Singh and Shanane to The United Arab Emirates to Continue Reading
Adhiraj Singh and Olkaan Nishtah at the Global Investment Growth Summit
The charming and charismatic Dr. Ved Pratap Vaidik – Chairman of The Council for Indian Foreign Policy and statesman journalist with Adhiraj Singh at the Global Investment Growth Summit in The United Arab Emirates – Graciously hosted by His Royal Highness Sheikh Majid Rashid Al Mualla of The Sheikhdom of Continue Reading
An Evening of Indian Art and Rajput Gastronomy
Adhiraj Singh and Shanane Davis take a moment between preparations for this dinner at Karni Leela House in Bikaner. The evening was organised to welcome the Celebrity Chef Sanjay Thakur and to celebrate the beauty and amalgamation of fine art and gastronomic sensibilities. These genres have always been combined as Continue Reading
The Bikaner Theatre, Art and Cultural Festival: Jan 15th to 30th, 2021
Manot – The dust that raised a Jawahar in the desert – Bikaner – In conversation with Shanane Davis and Graf Adhiraj Singh https://olkaannishtah.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Shanane-Davis-and-Graf-Adhiraj-Singh.mp4 The sublime usage of iconography to portray power and politics in South Asian Painting – In discussion with Shanane Davis, Graf Adhiraj Singh and Vinit Vyas Continue Reading
Phenomenal She Award
At the Constitution Club of India on the 7th of March, 2021 Shanane Davis was honoured with being recognized as one of the 100 leading ladies of India for her contribution to Indian art and material culture. The reception was organised by INBA, The Indian National Bar Association. The Honourable Continue Reading
Colonial-Period Court Painting and the Case of Bikaner
Molly Emma Aitken, Archives of Asian Art, Volume 67, April, 2017. ©2019 Duke University Press. All Rights Reserved. Nineteenth-century court painters in India’s princely states reconfigured traditional portraiture to address British, Indian courtly and local values and conventions. At Bikaner, a father and son, Rahim and Chotu, experimented with a Continue Reading
Old Methods in a New Era What can Connoisseurship Tell us about Rukn‐Ud‐Din?
Molly Emma Aitken, Shanane Davis, Yana van Dyke Book Editor(s): Rebecca M. Brown, Deborah S. Hutton First published 26, July, 2012 – Copyright 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Chapter available for purchase following the below link https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444396355.ch10 Olkaan Nishtah
The Bikaner School Usta Artisans and Their Heritage
Foreword (2008) Molly Emma Aitken Ph. D. Between the late-15th and the mid-19th centuries, the Hindu courts of present-day Rajasthan, which were ruled by a warrior caste calling themselves Rajputs or “sons of kings,” patronized an extraordinary tradition of paintings on paper. Executed in mineral and vegetable pigments, these paintings were Continue Reading