A closely related casket with mother-of-pearl set in black lac with similar engraved brass mounts in the Victoria and Albert Museum, attributed by Amin Jaffer to Gujarat circa 1600 (inv. 155-1866; Amin Jaffer, Luxury Goods from India, London, 2002, no. 5, pp.22-23). A basin with very similar palmettes has mounts produced by Elias Geyer in Leipzig in 1589 (Helmut Trnek and Sabine Haag (ed), ‘Exotica: Portugals Entdeckungen im Spiegel furstlicher Kunst - und Wunderkammern der Renaissance’, Jahrbuch des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien Band 3, fig.11, p.271). This suggests that our casket predates the turn of the 17th century. A further casket also decorated in mother-of-pearl set in black lac was sold in these Rooms, 10 June 2013, lot 122.