
Dora Tan
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This double-walled, large footed bowl has a pair of prominent Anglican lion mask lugs at the sides. Upper and lower bands are decorated with gandharvas in the South Indian manner in between a ring of large acanthus leaf spears.
The bowl is in the style of P. Orr and Sons. For example, see a sugar bowl, c.1890, with similar gandharvas framed by circling bands in Wilkinson, Indian Silver, 1858-1947, 1999, p.160, no.258, and an illustration of a teapot from a P. Orr and Sons sales catalog that shares the same acanthus leaf upper border (ibid., p.157, no.251). Also see a five-piece tea service in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond (2019.335.1-5).
Provenance
Private New York Collection, by the late 1950s
Thence by descent to the present owner