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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, Knightsbridge

Sold for £900 inc. premium

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A Highly Decorative Indian Circular Steel Dhal Commemorating The Maharajas Of Udaipur

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.

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Cf. a shield from the same workshop sold in these Rooms, see Antique Arms, Armour and Modern Sporting Guns ..., 1 December 2009, lot 337

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