Lot 129
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AN INDIAN PARCEL GILT SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER
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AN INDIAN PARCEL GILT SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER

NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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AN INDIAN PARCEL GILT SILVER ROSEWATER SPRINKLER
North India, 18th century
Worked in the form of a bold iris flowerhead, the tapering fluted neck with a band of leaves at the base, the mouth flaring into a bouquet of flowers, two birds flanking the base of the neck, on spreading foliate trumpet foot, the underside of the foot with devanagri inscription, good condition
11 1/8in. (28.3cm.) high
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Lot Essay

By the eighteenth century the iris had permeated much of Indian Art. Silver bottles using this flowerhead as the body are atributed to various parts of India at this period (Christiane Terlinden: Mughal Silver Magnificence, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1987, nos.93, 95 and 160, pp.85, 86 and 118).

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