NORTH INDIA, POSSIBLY KUTCH, 19TH CENTURY

Details

A SILVER EWER
NORTH INDIA, POSSIBLY KUTCH, 19TH CENTURY
The pear-shaped body tapering towards the neck and flaring again towards the hexagonal mouth, with hinged slightly domed lid, applied S-shaped handle, the curved spout with a floral collar around the aperture, on flaring hexagonal foot, decorated throughout with chased floral decoration
13in. (33cm.) high

Provenance

The Hon. Robert William Hervey Erskine collection before 2013, from which acquired by the present owner

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Lot Essay

The decorations on this ewer relates to the Koft Surahi and Kutch silver traditions from Gujarat (see Christiane Serra Fabri-Terlinden, Mughal Silver Magnificience (16th-19th Century), Bruxelles, 1987, no.150 and Dipti Khera et al. Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, Ahmedabad, 2008, pp.127-51). Various related examples from a London collection was sold in these Rooms, 24 April 2015, lots 94, 97-98, 100-103, 105-107.

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