NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY FOURTH QUARTER 16TH CENTURY OR 17TH CENTURY

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A MUGHAL MOTTLED DARK GREEN JADE INKPOT
NORTH INDIA, PROBABLY FOURTH QUARTER 16TH CENTURY OR 17TH CENTURY
Of globular form rising from short ring foot to short waisted neck, the rim with a carved protruding ring, the finely carved decoration with five large rosettes between bands of lotus and radiating petals above and below, on associated wooden stand
2in. (6.3cm.) high (without stand)

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Rev, Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, The Royal Observatory, Greenwich until 1811. His wife Margaret Maskelyne at Bassett Down, Wiltshire, and thence by descent.

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Rev. Dr. Nevil Maskelyne, fifth Astronomer Royal, was a close friend of Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive of Plassey and the East India Company's Governor of Bengal. Maskelyne's sister, Margaret married Clive in 1753 in Madras.

A very similar jar, of identical height and closely related decoration carved from nephrite jade is in the Al Sabah Collection and dated to probably last quarter of the 16th century (Manuel Keene with Salam Kaoukji, Treasury of the World, Jewelled Arts of India in the Age of the Mughals, London, 2001, cat.9.14, p.115).