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A large repoussé silver-overlaid copper bowl depicting the avatars of Vishnu Tanjore, circa 1900 image 1
A large repoussé silver-overlaid copper bowl depicting the avatars of Vishnu Tanjore, circa 1900 image 2
Lot 123

A large repoussé silver-overlaid copper bowl depicting the avatars of Vishnu
Tanjore, circa 1900

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A large repoussé silver-overlaid copper bowl depicting the avatars of Vishnu
Tanjore, circa 1900

of deep rounded form with everted rim, engraved and decorated in silver overlay with an arcade of avatars and women within the arches, above and below bands of floral and foliate motifs, the base engraved with a rosette, the interior with silver-overlaid rosette to well and band of foliate motifs to rim
41 cm. diam.

Footnotes

An almost identical bowl is in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (M.2014.182.1). A further example of metalwork from Tanjore which features the avatars of Vishnu is an 18th Century lota in Simon Ray, Indian and Islamic Works of Art, November 2011, pp. 64-65. For a comparable but smaller bowl sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 23 May 2023, lot 184.

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