
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
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The present lot's ornamentation is similar to that of pieces in Indian Museums attributed to early 19th century Hyderabad. Compare, for instance, the five-petaled flowers appearing on a candle-stand in the National Museum, New Delhi (62.798, see Lal, Bidri Ware, New Delhi, 1990, no. 163, p. 132) and the narrower bands of alternating petal and leaf motifs wrapping around the foot and shoulder of a bell-shaped hookah base dated to 1818 in the Jagdish & Kamla Mittal Museum of Indian Art (76.1265. ME.44, see Mittal, Bidri Ware and Damascene Work, Hyderabad, 2011, no. 44, pp. 138-9).
Provenance:
Private Californian Collection
Acquired from LaPorts Auction, California in 1980-5