An enamelled gilt bowl and cover, India, Lucknow, circa 1800
Auction Closed
March 31, 12:40 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
the bowl of circular form on a short foot, with domed cover surmounted by a bud finial, decorated with blue and green enamels on a gilt ground, decorated with floral tendrils and lobed cartouches containing further floral motifs, abstracted palmette bands to foot and top edge, interior plain
19.6cm. height
17.2cm. diam.
The use of blue and green enamels are typical of production in Lucknow. There appear to have been two different groups of enamelled wares using this colouring. The first group is worked with very finely engraved foliate designs enamelled against a plain silver or silver-gilt ground (M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, pl.72-74, pp.86-87). The second group of which the current lot is an example uses a higher proportion of enamelling to silver-gilt ground with the use of larger floral forms.
The form of this piece relates to late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century silver-gilt pan-boxes from Lucknow (see C. Terlinden, Mughal Silver Magnificence (XVI-XIXth C.), Brussels, 1987, p.139, no.189 and p.145, no.212), their domed shapes echoing Lucknow architecture of the same period.
The form of this piece relates to late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century silver-gilt pan-boxes from Lucknow (see C. Terlinden, Mughal Silver Magnificence (XVI-XIXth C.), Brussels, 1987, p.139, no.189 and p.145, no.212), their domed shapes echoing Lucknow architecture of the same period.