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Lot 128

A study for a silver repousse mirror, from the workshop of Oomersi Mawji
Bhuj, Kutch, late 19th Century

6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A study for a silver repousse mirror, from the workshop of Oomersi Mawji
Bhuj, Kutch, late 19th Century

pencil on paper, stamped Oomersee Mawjee/Silver Smith/Bhuj Cutch
315 x 175 mm.

Footnotes

For a discussion of a recently-discovered group of three hundred OM drawings, see V. Dehejia, 'A Cache Uncovered: Workshop Drawings of Oomersee Mawjee & Sons of Kutch', in V. Dehejia (ed.), Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, 2008, pp. 38-47, in particular p. 42, fig. 8 for a design for a mirror, and p. 43, fig. 11 for a design for a tray.

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