Masterpieces of the East - Tippoo's Tiger

Series revealing the stories behind iconic artefacts from the Indian subcontinent. One of the most extraordinary and renowned objects in the Victoria and Albert museum is a life-sized wooden model of a tiger ferociously mauling a male figure. Originally owned by the Sultan of Mysore, it reveals much about his obsession with tigers and his opposition to the encroaching British in the 1790s.