ATTRIBUTED TO ATTAMARAM VULLERAM, MID-19TH CENTURY, BOMBAY

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN IVORY, EBONY AND SADELI INKSTAND
ATTRIBUTED TO ATTAMARAM VULLERAM, MID-19TH CENTURY, BOMBAY
Rectangular with one long drawer, the top fitted with two mounted glass inkwells flanking a rectangular compartment with lid, a pen depression at either side
12¼ in. (31 cm.) wide; 9 in. (29.9 cm.) deep

Literature

For an almost identical example, see: A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, London, 2001, p. 317, pl. 130.

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Lot Essay

Attamaram Vulleram was a long-established sadeli craftsman working in Bombay in 1862. An almost identical inkstand (lacking bun feet and mounted glass bottles) is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum no. IS.01159:1-3) and was exhibited at the Universal Exhibition, Paris, 1855.

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