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A MUGHAL COBALT BLUE GLASS DISH
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A MUGHAL COBALT BLUE GLASS DISH

NORTH INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY

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A MUGHAL COBALT BLUE GLASS DISH
NORTH INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
The rich cobalt-blue dish with rounded sides on short foot, the upper surface decorated with a gold ogival lattice enclosing silver lotus flowerheads, within narrow triangular motif borders containing feathered motifs, the centre plain, good condition
65/8in. (16.7cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

An early eighteenth century bidri container for lime paste in the David Collection, Copenhagen, has an almost identical lattice containing lotus flowers (Zebrowski, Mark: Gold Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, pl.409, p.240).

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