AN OPENWORK SILVER-GILT SPICE TRAY (PANDAN)

NORTH INDIA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

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AN OPENWORK SILVER-GILT SPICE TRAY (PANDAN)
NORTH INDIA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY
The tray's engraved decoration consisting of radiating leaf motifs between gilt registers, the bulbous openwork lid with floral motifs within medallions interspersed with floral sprays, the finial worked as an inverted flower head with a baluster knop
5.½in. (14cm.) high

Lot Essay

Our pandan box, with its inverted floral motif decorating the lid, is closely related to a spicebox from Lucknow dated to the19th century now kept at the Victoria and Albert Museum (inventory number IS.1866-1883).