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A PAIR OF NORTH INDIAN IVORY-INLAID HARDWOOD OCTAGONAL GAMES-TABLES
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A PAIR OF NORTH INDIAN IVORY-INLAID HARDWOOD OCTAGONAL GAMES-TABLES

HOSHIARPUR, LATE 19TH 20TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF NORTH INDIAN IVORY-INLAID HARDWOOD OCTAGONAL GAMES-TABLES
HOSHIARPUR, LATE 19th 20th CENTURY
Each with octagonal moulded top inlaid with a chessboard surrounded by scrolling foliage, above a conforming frieze, enclosing a drawer, on arched shaped legs, minor variations
18½ in. (47 cm.) high; 16 in. (40.5 cm.) diameter (2)
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This pair of tables is probably made from shisham, a timber indigenous to the northern Indian region of Hoshiarpur. The fashion for such octagon tables was exploited from the 1880s in response to the European fashion for Ottoman or Moorish decoration. Ivory-inlaid furniture from Hoshiarpur began to sell extremely well after the Calcutta International Exhibition of 1883-84 and large quantites were exported to Europe. ( See A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon,London, 2001, pp. 285-286).

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