Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks - 22nd September 2021

Lot 232

λ AN INDO-PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD

Estimate £8,000 - £12,000 | Hammer £17000

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Description

λ AN INDO-PORTUGUESE ROSEWOOD, HARDWOOD AND IVORY INLAID TABLE CABINET

GUJARAT OR SINDH, EARLY 17TH CENTURY AND LATER

inlaid with panels of birds amongst urns of flowers and leaves, the top with flying exotic birds holding two baby elephants, tigers attacking antelopes and a pair of falconers, the sides with the addition of tigers, the front with peacocks and snakes, tigers and two falconers, the front adapted with later brass hinges and a pair of doors enclosing an arrangement of seven drawers, the top a long drawer with a false front, the centre a deep drawer, inlaid with scrolling leaves, flowers and birds and a balustrade, with side iron carrying handles

35.7cm high, 53.7cm wide, 39.3cm deep

Catalogue Note

See Amin Jaffer, 'Luxury Goods from India', pp.44-45 for a discussion of this type of cabinet.

For very similar cabinets, see the Victoria and Albert Museum, no.122-1906, Woolley & Wallis, Furniture, Works of Art & Clocks, 11th August 2020, lot 340, Bonham's, Islamic and Indian Art, 23rd October 2017, lot 168 and Christie's, Art of the Islamic & Indian Worlds, 7th April 2011, lot 256.