LAHORE OR SIMLA, LATE 19TH CENTURY

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A NORTH INDIAN BRASS-INLAID AND CARVED THREE-LEAF SCREEN
Lahore or Simla, late 19th century
Each leaf with pierced arched top above a pierced panel of radiating stars enclosed by a rosette-carved border, a floral panel inlaid on a padouk ground and pierced geometric panel
Each leaf 74½ x 19 in. (189 x 48 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The delicate carved panels incorporated into this screen are typical of work known as pinjra or 'bird-cage work'. The geometric tracery and pierced carving was commonly incorporated into architecture of the northern Punjab. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was found most successfully on screens such as this and also on octagonal tables.A related example is illustrated in A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, no. 126.

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