Lot 205
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AN INDIAN ENGRAVED-IVORY WORK-BOX

VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH CENTURY

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AN INDIAN ENGRAVED-IVORY WORK-BOX
VIZAGAPATAM, LATE 18TH CENTURY
In the form of a cottage with arched roof, the sandalwood compartmented interior with a side drawer and fitted with a few ivory tools
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high; 7 in. (18 cm.) wide
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Lot Essay

This sewing-box pattern, fashioned like a Calcutta house, was popular around 1800 and was executed under the direction of the Dutch and East India Companies at Vizagapatam, Andhra State on the Coromandel coast for retail in Madras and Calcutta (A.K.H. Jaffer, 'The Furniture Trade in early Colonial India', Oriental Art, Vol. XV1, no. 1, Spring 1995, p. 12-13.).

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