An Indian silver embossed sofa after a mid-19th-century Anglo-Indian Rajastan model

With traces of oxidation and surface dirt, in otherwise very good overall condition.
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Bahadur Shah II (1837-1858) was the last Mughal emperor. The inspiration for this expotic piece may have been the Indo-European style of the Scottish artist Robert Home (1752-1834) for the King Oudh. Home's flight of fancy may well have been inspired by Cabral's Voyages of circa 1500 with reference to the Zamorin Calicut's "large silver chair." The Indo-European style became popular in the Northern courts from the middle of the nineteenth century.