A LARGE INDIAN SILVER TWO-HANDLED PRESENTATION CUP rising from a square base to the sharply waisted sides with vertical rim and domed cover, the lower body with imitation tiger skins around trophies of military weapons and Indian sceptres, the underside with acanthus leaves, the rim with an applied fruiting vine frieze, the handles in the form of elephants' heads, the sides with a lengthy presentation inscription, one side in copperplate English, the other in nasta'liq Urdu, the cover with an acanthus band and similar radiating leaves from the knop in the form of a pomegranite, ENGLISH SILVER ASSOCIATED PLINTH draped with lion skins and with elephant-heads in the four corners, Paul Storr, London 1836

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A LARGE INDIAN SILVER TWO-HANDLED PRESENTATION CUP rising from a square base to the sharply waisted sides with vertical rim and domed cover, the lower body with imitation tiger skins around trophies of military weapons and Indian sceptres, the underside with acanthus leaves, the rim with an applied fruiting vine frieze, the handles in the form of elephants' heads, the sides with a lengthy presentation inscription, one side in copperplate English, the other in nasta'liq Urdu, the cover with an acanthus band and similar radiating leaves from the knop in the form of a pomegranite, ENGLISH SILVER ASSOCIATED PLINTH draped with lion skins and with elephant-heads in the four corners, Paul Storr, London 1836
overall 31½in. (80cm.) high (2)

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The carpet session will commence on
THURSDAY 20 OCTOBER
AT 2.30 P.M.

Lot Essay

The English inscription reads,'To SHEARMAN BIRD ESQr. late Senior Judge of the Courts of appeal and Circuit for the division of Dacca His Highness Nusul Jung Bahadur Nawab of Dacca the Nawab Shamseddowla and the pricipal inhabitants of this City in respect and veneration of his character during along (sic) period of public and private intercourse on the occasion of his departure for England present this Cup 1819'

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