India

with hinged domed lid

Manuel Castilho Antiguidades, Olympia art fair, London

In fairly good condition, some discoloration and breaks with associated restoration to mother-of-pearl sections, particularly visible to interior of lid, some possible later replacements, few very light scratches to surface, as viewed.
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Although similar to the sixteenth-century mother of pearl wares from Gujarat, the decorative style of punching rings into the surface and the inclusion of a red paint inlay is twentieth century (see a comparable in the British Museum, London, inv. no. 1913,1222.41).