An Indian carved ivory box with surface-mounted medallions with representation of Mughal and other monuments, Company School, India, circa 1880

of rectangular form, the ivory finely decorated in openwork with stylised flowerheads inside roundels, with a leafy background and a geometric border, inset with six rectangular glass and silver-framed panels to the sides and two oval to the top, each one containing a Company School gouache on ivory painted scene of a monument, including two scenes of the Taj Mahal in Agra, two scenes of the Red Fort in Delhi, the Moti Masjid (or Pearl Mosque) in the Delhi Fort, Akbar's tomb in Sikandra, the Daulat Khana-i Khass (or Private Audience Hall) in Shahjahanabad fort, Delhi, and the Golden Temple at Amritsar  

In general good condition, one angle near base with very small crack, one or two feet possibly re-affixed to base, as viewed
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A similar ivory box with carved and pierced decoration and mounted with miniatures of multiple Indian monuments is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. IS.2-1957); the miniatures are attributed to the painter Lala Faqir Chand, circa 1880 (New York 2012, p.193, no.96).