A silver filigree casket, North India, probably Gujarat, 18th century

the gilt body of rectangular form with scalloped edges and fluted sides, hinged lid and side loop handles, decorated with panels of filigree openwork with a central floral medallion enclosed by geometric and foliate motifs, gilt quatrefoil key

Comparable in design and decoration to nine late-eighteenth-century pandan boxes in the Victoria and Albert Museum (VAM02735.I.S.) (see Terlinden 1987, p.137, no.187), and two eighteenth-century silver filigree boxes in the Clive collection, listed in the inventory of 1775 as 'Two Philigree Dressing boxes' (see London 1982, no.337).