Lot 225
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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY AND SADELI INLAID SANDALWOOD WORK BOX
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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY AND SADELI INLAID SANDALWOOD WORK BOX

CIRCA 1850

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY AND SADELI INLAID SANDALWOOD WORK BOX
CIRCA 1850
Of sarcophagus form, with internal tray fitted with various boxes and containers, some fitted for sewing implements, with twin brass swing handles to the sides, distressed
12¾in. (31.7cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

The portable work-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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