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A bronze casket possibly Sultanate India, 16th Century image 1
A bronze casket possibly Sultanate India, 16th Century image 2
Lot 172*

A bronze casket
possibly Sultanate India, 16th Century

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,816 inc. premium

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A bronze casket
possibly Sultanate India, 16th Century

of circular form on three feet, with hinged lid with central dome surmounted by a finial in the form of a bird, engraved and decorated with bands of geometric patterns and stylised petals
20.2 cm. high

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Provenance
Christie's, Arts of Islam Including Property from the Bequest of Adrienne Minassian Sold to Benefit Brown University, 26 April 2013, lot 782.
Private US collection.

A Sultanate bronze ewer, also surmounted by a bird, was sold at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 7 October 2015, Lot 386.

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