AN INDO-PORTUGUESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BLACK LAC OVERLAID WOODEN CASKET
AN INDO-PORTUGUESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BLACK LAC OVERLAID WOODEN CASKET

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AN INDO-PORTUGUESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL AND BLACK LAC OVERLAID WOODEN CASKET
GUJARAT, INDIA, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Of rectangular form with coffered hinged lid, the surface decorated with mother-of-pearl set into black lac with red paste highlights, with a design of palm trees and cusped medallions containing a palmette lattice set on a ground of scrolling vine, the lid with a scrolling floral design, the edges with bands of quatrefoil lattice, engraved brass latch and hinges, curved handles on either side, the corners with curved brackets and the interior lined with red velvet, losses to the mother-of-pearl
10½ x 18¾ x 10½in. (26.6 x 47.6 x 26.6cm.)
拍场告示
Please note that this lot is incorrectly labelled lot 134 in the catalogue.

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Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse

拍品专文

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.

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