AN ANGLO-INDIAN SHISHAM, BRASS AND EBONY INLAID OCCASIONAL TABLE

AN ANGLO-INDIAN SHISHAM, BRASS AND EBONY INLAID OCCASIONAL TABLE

PROBABLY LAHORE, LATE 19TH / EARLY 20TH CENTURY

decorated with a central star and scrolling leaves and flowers, the lift-off octagonal top above a folding base with carved and pierced panels, wtih printed paper lables inscribed 'Made in British India'

50.7cm high, 55cm wide

Literature

See Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, p.293, pl.115 for a very similar example.