CIRCA 1880, HOSHIARPUR

Octagonal tables such as these and the previous lot were made in several places in late 19th-century India, principally in response to the growing fashion in Europe for 'Moorish' and 'Arab' furnishings and decorative accessories. The region most well-known for such Islamic style ivory-inlay was Hoshiarpur District, where the patterns produced were geometric motifs and foliate patterns. A similar ivory-inlaid table is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, p.288, fig. 109).