Skip to main content
A silver-thread embroidered velvet-clad leather quiver (tarkash) and bow case (kamandan) with twelve lacquered arrows North India, probably Lahore, early 19th Century(14) image 1
A silver-thread embroidered velvet-clad leather quiver (tarkash) and bow case (kamandan) with twelve lacquered arrows North India, probably Lahore, early 19th Century(14) image 2
Lot 266

A silver-thread embroidered velvet-clad leather quiver (tarkash) and bow case (kamandan) with twelve lacquered arrows
North India, probably Lahore, early 19th Century
(14)

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,680 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Islamic and Indian Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A silver-thread embroidered velvet-clad leather quiver (tarkash) and bow case (kamandan) with twelve lacquered arrows
North India, probably Lahore, early 19th Century

the leather quiver and bow case covered with red velvet and embroidered to the front with silver and gilt metal thread entwined around yellow and white silk thread, with sequins, in floral designs, the quiver with velvet clad leather belt, and two sets of four tassels to one side; the arrows with steel tips and lacquered in polychrome at one end
the quiver 69 cm. long(14)

Footnotes

Provenance
Private UK collection, acquired in the late 1950s or early 1960s, and thence by descent.

For a comparable quiver sold in these rooms, which was presented to William Fraser (1784-1835) by a Sikh nobleman, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art Including Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, 22 October 2019, lot 190. An Ottoman bow from the same collection is lot 67 in the present sale.

Additional information