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Lot 59Ф,Y

A Very Rare Indian Ivory Priming-Flask
Late 17th Century

23 July 2015, 10:30 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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A Very Rare Indian Ivory Priming-Flask
Late 17th Century

Made in two parts secured by ivory pegs and carved respectively with a medial band of trefoils and ropework, the forward section forming the nozzle and carved in the round as the fore-quarters of a double-headed antelope beset by a tiger-head above and a wolf-head beneath, the antelope and tiger each with dark horn eyes, the tapering rear section (minor age split on one side) carved in low relief on each side with a prancing antelope between foliage, and with slightly recurved tip carved as a further antelope in the round leaping from between an elephant-head and a tiger-head at the rear, shaped sprung tap, and brass loop for suspension
22 cm.

Footnotes

For other examples see Victoria & Albert Museum, The Indian Heritage, Court Life & Arts under Mughal Rule, 21 April-22 August 1982, exhibition catalogue, London, 1982, p.135, figs. 439 and 440; Howard Ricketts and Philippe Missillier, Splendour Des Armes Orientales, d'Acte-Expo, Paris, 4 May-3 July 1988, pp.106-107, fig.174; and Robert Hales, Islamic And Oriental Arms And Armour..., 2013, p.252, fig.614

Cf. another related example, Christie's London, Antique Arms And Armour, 29 October 1986, lot 93

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