BIDAR, DECCAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE SILVER AND BRASS INLAID BIDRI EWER
BIDAR, DECCAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Of flat-sided drop form rising to flaring hexagonal section mouth, scrolling handle linking shoulder and mouth, rising curving tapering tubular spout, on sloping hexagonal foot, the body decorated with graduated stepped single tulip flowerheads inlaid in silver and brass, within narrow meandering floral borders, cracked, some loss to silver, drilled, missing cover
14in. (35.9cm.) high

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拍品專文

This large ewer is very similar in form to the magnificent example decorated with scrolling tendrils on a silver ground that is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Susan Stronge, Bidri Ware, Inlaid Metalwork from India, London, 1985, no.2, p,39, pls.pp.38 and 40 and cover). The base of the handle is particularly similar. Both are also worked with larger areas of silver combined with relatively small details of brass wire work. The flowers on the present ewer appear to be a strange combination. The flowers themselves immediately appear to be tulips, a flower not normally found in Indian decorative arts at this period, but their leaves are not at all like those of tulips, resembling far closer the chrysanthemum. It is possible that the motif of the tulip flowerhead arrived from further west and was thus incorporated into the Indian flora having been transplanted onto a different stem. The tree under the handle on this ewer is very similar to that on a hookah base in the Victoria and Albert Museum dated to the late 17th or early 18th century (Stronge, op.cit., no.7, p.45).