A Mughal enamelled and gold-wire inlaid jade mirror, India, 19th century

the stone of mid-green tones worked in an oval form with a protruding bud-form handle, decorated with red, yellow, green, blue and white enamel and gold-wire inlays in a symmetrical design of interlacing foliate tendrils around a central floral motif, with fitted case

Formerly in the Collection of Charles Kelekian
sold through these rooms, lot 117, 15 October 1998

Please note that there is not a fitted case included in this lot
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A comparable mirror is to be found in the collection of Indian jades in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (see Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, p.260-61, no.68).