£500 - £600
A Van Ingen & Van Ingen Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris Tigris) Skin Rug, the head mounted on wood with an open mouth showing teeth and glass eyes, the whole mounted with black felt and with khaki canvas to the underside, 305cm x 193. Markings: The underside of the canvas is marked with the inventory number, 17466 and Van Ingen & Van Ingen, Mysore, and the wooden mount is signed in pencil, 466 with an illegible name.
Provenance; according to the Van Ingen records 17,466 relates to Major General Sir R. Hutchison, KCMG, CB, DSO, States Enquiry Committee, Camp India, 12th April 1932, who had two Tiger skins and skulls sent to 19 Montague Square, London on the 14th September 1932.
Major-General Robert Hutchison, 1st Baron Hutchison of Montrose, (1873 – 1950), was a Scottish soldier and Liberal politician. He served in both the Boer War and the WWI. He retired from the army in 1923 and became a politician. On his retirement from the House of Commons in 1932, he was raised to the peerage as Baron Hutchison of Montrose. He later served under Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain as Paymaster General from 1935 to 1938 and was appointed a Privy Counsellor in 1937.
The States Enquiry Committee was the franchise enquiry was a central component in the Indian constitutional reform process of the 1930's.
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