Lot 264
ANGLO-INDIAN PADOUK AND IVORY INLAID VIZAGAPATAM WRITING BOX
18TH CENTURY
Auction: 28 March 2012 at 12:00 BST
Description
the hinged rectangular top centred by a finely worked inlaid ivory bouquet of flowers and cornucopia, within a densely inlaid border of scrolling flowers and ribbon bands continuing to the corner panels, with steel carrying handles, the interior fitted with an arrangment of drawers and compartments
Dimensions
53cm wide, 12cm high, 39cm deep
Footnote
Provenance:
By repute the box was originally owned by Apphia, Baroness Lyttelton (1743-1840), who was in Bengal with her first husband Colonel Joseph Peach (1731-1770), an officer in the 1st Bengal European Regiment. Lady Lyttelton then married Thomas, 2nd Baron Lyttelton (1744-1779) of Hagley Hall in Worcestershire, in 1772
For similar examples see Christie's, London, 3 November 2011, lot 155; Sotheby's, New York, 23 January, 2011, lot 56