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Presale Islamic and Indian art from a Private Collection in Rome and other provenances. In partnership with BAIAS Arte. Sessione unica
Monday 16 December 2024 hours 15:30 (UTC +01:00)
Indo-Portuguese mother-of-pearl dish
Indo-Portuguese mother-of-pearl dish
Northwest India, Gujarat, 17th century
shallow and with a poly-lobed rim. Covered in nailed mother-of-pearl tesserae arranged to form a radial fish scale decoration around a central flower in the inner round. For a comparative example see Bonhams London, India in Art, 7 June 2023, lot 36.Mother-of-pearl objects created in the Gujarat region were imported to Europe via the routes of Portuguese merchants as early as the first half of the 16th century and made their way into princely wunderkammer collections. The first documented example was preserved in the Green Vaults in Dresden and first recorded in an inventory of 1586 (Seipel 2000, cat. no. 67 p.160-61).
D. 20 cm