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Lot Essay
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE:
Amin Jaffer, Furniture From British India and Ceylon, V&A Publications 2001, page 374, figure 182.
From the exterior the richly variegated calamander workboxes with scalloped edges appear quite simple. However, typical to the workshops of the Galle region in the 1830's, mulitple layers of compartments were veneered in an array of exotic specimen woods, such as palm, cocunut palm, ironwood and satinwood. The inner face to the lid was also characteristically decorated, sometimes with a portrait of a monarch or more typically an elephant, inlaid with engraved and lac highlighted ivory and exotic woods.
Amin Jaffer, Furniture From British India and Ceylon, V&A Publications 2001, page 374, figure 182.
From the exterior the richly variegated calamander workboxes with scalloped edges appear quite simple. However, typical to the workshops of the Galle region in the 1830's, mulitple layers of compartments were veneered in an array of exotic specimen woods, such as palm, cocunut palm, ironwood and satinwood. The inner face to the lid was also characteristically decorated, sometimes with a portrait of a monarch or more typically an elephant, inlaid with engraved and lac highlighted ivory and exotic woods.