Five Indian betel nut cutters

Five Indian betel nut cutters

brass and steel, including a hamsa, mythological goose and elephant, 15cm long, a couple dancing, 14.5cm long, a bird with stylised beast handles, 16.5cm long, a vandun giraya (worship cutter) with a human head and extended hands, 25cm long and a another vandun giraya with a cobra and a figure with a rifle and sat on an elephant, 17.2cm long. (5)

Provenance

Ernest Ohly, Berkeley Galleries, London.