PROBABLY GUJARAT, INDIA, LATE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY

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A SILVER FILIGREE CASKET
PROBABLY GUJARAT, INDIA, LATE 17TH OR 18TH CENTURY
Of rectangular form on small spherical feet and with cusped lid, the whole completely composed of fine spiralling filigree work, the front and back of body with long rectangular panels enclosing three stylized flowerhead panels, the ends with similar single flowerheads within panels, the hinges worked in filigree, lid with knob in the form of a rosette, lock mechanism missing
5½ x 4 x 3¼in. (14 x 10 x 7.9cm.)
473.3g

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Lot Essay

A filigree casket in the Museum Nacional de Arte Antiga in Lisbon, with cover of very similar form, has been dated to the seventeenth century (Mughal Silver Magnificence, exhibition catalogue, Brussels, 1987, no. 225, p. 152). The same casket, together with another one whose cover is simply rounded but which is on the same feet as are found under ours, is published in Bernado Ferrão, Mobiliário Português, Índia e Japão, Porto, 1990, nos.404 and 405, pp.125-6).

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