AN INDO-PORTUGUESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL DISH
INDIA, GUJARAT, EARLY 17TH CENTURY
£9,604
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
of shallow rounded form with a narrow flat rim on a short brass foot ring, composed of geometric mother-of-pearl sections forming a flowerhead within a central roundel with an outer band of radiating panels, all sections secured by pins, jagged rim edge, verso with central circular panel and radiating panels, brass band below rim
Dimensions
3.3cm high; 20.2cm diameter
Provenance
Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian, Scotland.
Footnote
For a very similar Indo-Portuguese dish, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 14 November 2023, lot 92.