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Lot 337
A Highly Decorative Indian Circular Steel Dhal Commemorating The Maharajas Of Udaipur
28 July 2010, 14:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £900 inc. premium
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Of convex form, with four blued steel domed bosses and turned gold-damascened border, the former each gold-damascened with foliage centred on a flowerhead and set against a circular border of chiselled gold-damascened lotus blossoms, and centred on a gold-damascened mustachioed Indian head in splendour within a circular border of gold-damascened ropework, the outer border chiselled in low relief with twenty-four portrait medallions representing the Maharajahs of Udaipur, each labelled in Hindi and dated from 1537 to 1955, the interior with burgundy velvet liner, pad and bracers
44.7 cm. diam.
44.7 cm. diam.
Footnotes
Cf. a shield from the same workshop sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns ..., 1 December 2009, lot 337








