Asian Art II - Part One - 22nd May 2024

Lot 751

A DECCAN SILVER-INLAID BIDRI CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

Estimate £300 - £500 | Hammer £315

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Description

A DECCAN SILVER-INLAID BIDRI CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
19TH CENTURY

Decorated with geometric bands of stars, flowers and petals, together with two silver-inlaid copper bowls, 12.2cm and 8cm. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (with the artist Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.