Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 128
A Deccani silver-inlaid brass stand India, 16th/ 17th Century
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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Oliver White
Head of Department
A Deccani silver-inlaid brass stand
India, 16th/ 17th Century
India, 16th/ 17th Century
of waisted form with central moulded ring, on a stepped base, the flaring upper element with everted rim, engraved, inlaid in silver and decorated in niello with floral motifs and foliate and geometric designs
25.8 cm. high
25.8 cm. high
Footnotes
It is possible that the present lot is a section from a garden fountain. Comparable elements and designs can be found on a piece described as either a fountainhead or incense burner in the Nasser D. Khalili collection, illustrated in Michael Spink, Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands, Part III, London, 2022, p. 1100, No. 720. It also bears a similarity to the central section of a garden fountain in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, formed of seven separately cast parts soldered together (Object No. 1997.150). Surviving fountains of this kind are normally made of marble, however many metalwork fountains must have been created and later melted down. A further bronze example is in The David Collection, Copenhagen (Inv. No. 53/1998).