A carved jade bowl set with enamelled flowers, India, Mughal, 17th/18th century

decorated with red and green enamelled flowers including lotus, prunus, chrysanthemums and carnations with leafy stems and gold and silver outlines, the foot with enamelled flowerhead to underside  

In fairly good condition, the enamelwork very fragile with some restorations, including replacements, also to the fine gold wiring used for stems, as viewed.
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Decorated with bright red and green enamelled floral stems rendered with a natural vitality, the present bowl is evocative of the skill and creativity of Indian jewellers working with enamels. Originally introduced into India by European jewellers, the enamel technique was quickly taken up by local craftsmen, spreading throughout the Subcontinent in the sixteenth/seventeenth century. A beautiful, comparable, hand-mirror composed of nephrite set with colourful, transparent enamels is in the Khalili collection, London, inv.no.JLY 1068. For further examples with a similar enamel design, see Keene 2001, Moscow 2014, and Jaffer 2013).