A DECCAN SILVER-INLAID BIDRI CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER

A DECCAN SILVER-INLAID BIDRI CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
19TH CENTURY

Decorated with geometric bands of stars, flowers and petals, together with two silver-inlaid copper bowls, 12.2cm and 8cm. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (with the artist Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.

十九世紀 印度錯銀蓋盒 一組三件
來源：諾曼·布朗特（1875-1930）收藏。諾曼布朗特曾是一個黃麻經銷商，與藝術家泰戈爾一起擔任了印度東方藝術協會的聯合秘書（1907年於加爾各答成立），而霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916)為協會主席。