Lot 339

CARVED ANGLO-INDIAN SANDALWOOD LAP DESK
19TH CENTURY




Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 15 May 2019 at 17:00 BST
£938
Description
the exterior elaborately carved with peacocks and winged mythical beasts amongst scrolling foliage, the interior with a folding green plush slope in front of a compartmented interior fitted with twin inkwells
Dimensions
36cm wide
Footnote
Provenance:
Private English collection.
Note:
For a comparable writing desk in the Victoria & Albert Museum, see Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London 2001, no. 21 (illustr.).



