Andrew S. Topsfield is Keeper of Eastern Art at the

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, Oxford. He was educated at

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and the universities of Oxford and London. In 1978 he joined the Indian section of the

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as an assistant keeper and moved to the Ashmolean Museum as assistant keeper of

eastern art Asian art includes a vast range of arts from various cultures, regions, and religions across the continent of Asia. East Asian art includes works from China, Japan, and Korea, while Southeast Asian art includes the arts of Brunei, Cambodia, Ea ...

in 1984.

Selected publications

* Ed., ''Court painting in Rajasthan'', Bombay, 2000. * "Court painting at Udaipur: Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar", '' Artibus Asiae Supplementum'' XLIV, Zurich, 2002. * Ed., with R. Crill and S. Stronge, ''Arts of Mughal India: Studies in honour of Robert Skelton'', Ahmedabad and London, 2004. * Ed., ''In the realm of gods and kings: Arts of India'', London, 2004 (repr. 2014). * Ed., ''The art of play: Board and card games of India'', Bombay, 2006. * 'Snakes and Ladders in India: Some further discoveries', ''

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'', LXVI, 1, 2006, 143-79. * ''Paintings from Mughal India'', Oxford:

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, 2008 (repr. 2013). * ‘Sahibdin’, in M.C. Beach, B.N. Goswamy and E. Fischer eds., ''Masters of Indian painting'', Zurich, 2011, vol. 1, 391-406. * ''Visions of Mughal India: The collection of

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, Londo ...

'', Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012.

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