A PAIR OF ROYAL SILVER-MOUNTED WOOD DOORS, COMMISSIONED FOR THE JUNA MAHAL PALACE, INDIA, DUNGARPUR, 19TH CENTURY
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October 27, 04:55 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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A PAIR OF ROYAL SILVER-MOUNTED WOOD DOORS, COMMISSIONED FOR THE JUNA MAHAL PALACE, INDIA, DUNGARPUR, 19TH CENTURY
each door carved and chiselled with an openwork geometric lattice in four panels mounted completely with silver, each with a central plaque featuring floral and fauna worked in silver repoussé, the reverse of each door with an engraved floral design, in bespoke frame
189 by 96cm.
Ex-collection Marc Peretz (1918-99), Saarbrueken, Germany.
These impressive doors were richly adorned in sheet silver and decorated in repoussé in a manner which recalls the silver doors found on some of the most important palaces of North India. A comparable pair of doors attributed to Rajasthan, eighteenth/nineteenth century, are illustrated in Brussels 1987, p.59, no.32. As noted in the catalogue, the rich use of silver on such doors illustrates the "Indian love of silver and their lavish use of the metal".