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Lot Essay
Recorded in the Upper Hall at Kenwood House as 'An inlaid ivory and kingwood box...8 drawers within, fall down flap to front (probably Indian)' in the 1910 Inventory, Volume 1, p.57, item 577.
This exotic storage cabinet for precious objects, displaying inlaid 'scenes of the chase' with court figures engaged in falconry, typifies the seventeenth century Portuguese East India Company manufactures associated with the West Indian coastal regions of Gujarat and Sindh and recalling the painting traditions of Gujarati and Rajasthani (A. Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India; The Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker, London, 2002, pp.31 and 32). Such work was prized as 'Elizabethan' by early 19th century antiquarians (A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 200l, no.32).
This exotic storage cabinet for precious objects, displaying inlaid 'scenes of the chase' with court figures engaged in falconry, typifies the seventeenth century Portuguese East India Company manufactures associated with the West Indian coastal regions of Gujarat and Sindh and recalling the painting traditions of Gujarati and Rajasthani (A. Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India; The Art of the Indian Cabinet-Maker, London, 2002, pp.31 and 32). Such work was prized as 'Elizabethan' by early 19th century antiquarians (A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 200l, no.32).