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A carved ivory pen-box, Deccan, 17th century
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- Ivory
- 26.3cm.
the ivory body of rectangular form with a coffered lid, with four internal compartments, the exterior decorated with arcades of flowering plants bordered by bands of scrolling floral rosettes and palmettes, one panel showing a monkey, truncated palmette-form feet carved on the underside in low relief
Provenance
Nicholas Woodbridge, Bath
Acquired in 1989
Acquired in 1989
Catalogue Note
There is a similar pen-box in the Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin. A comparable arcade of polylobed cartouches bordered by scrolling lotus palmettes is found on a seventeenth-century Deccani box panel in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (see Pal 1981, p.80, nos.71,72).