MID 19TH CENTURY

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY AND SADELI-VENEERED FOLDING WRITING SLOPE
MID 19TH CENTURY
With compartmented interior
8 in. (20.3 cm.) high; 15¾ in. (40 cm.) wide; 11¼ in. (28½ cm.) deep

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Lot Essay

The portable writing-box, with its mosaiced chequer parquetry, relates to the work of the 'sadeli' manufacturers of Bombay, of which Atmaram Wulleram was recorded as being amongst the longest-established in the 1860s (G.C.M. Birdwood, The Inlaid Work of Bombay, Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, Bombay chapter, vol. VII, 1861-3 p.X1X; and A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, no. 130).

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