Lot 481
A Mughal enamelled gold Tray Jaipur, India, 19th Century
29 April 2004, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £5,975 inc. premium
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Jaipur, India, 19th Century
Jaipur, India, 19th Century
octagonal, with outurned rim, decorated in green, red, white and lavender enamel with a central lobed roundel containing a fantail pigeon with puffed up chest, surrounded by a kaleidoscopic pattern of medallions containing a floral medallion alternating with cypress trees, the underside of the rim with a frieze of upright leaves, the base engraved with Gujerati numerals
190 g.; 12.4 cm. diam.
190 g.; 12.4 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Provenance:
The Late Baron Freddy Rolin, Brussels, Belgium.
For a turban ornament from the Jaipur Treasury with this type of enamelling, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, see Susan Stronge et al, A Golden Treasury: Jewellery from the Indian Subcontinent, London, 1998, no. 43.