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Lot 274

A brass inlaid steel quoit (chakram)
India, 19th Century

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

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A brass inlaid steel quoit (chakram)
India, 19th Century

of circular form, the outer edge sharpened, decorated in brass inlay to both sides with hunting scenes
17.9 cm. diam.

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Provenance
Hose Rodes Dickson auction, Brading, Isle of Wight, 19 June 2014, lot 112.

This quoit is highly unusual due to its decoration consisting of tigers. The only other known quoit decorated with tigers was once in the collection of M. Joseph Pilinsky de Belty, France's consul-general in Calcutta. It is illustrated in an engraving published in Charles Buttin's, Les Anneaux-Discques Préhistoriques et les Tchakras de L'Inde (1903), p. 41.

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