A Deccani lacquer penbox India, 17th Century
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A Deccani lacquer penbox
India, 17th Century
of rectangular form with curved ends, of papier-mâché and wood decorated in polychrome and gold with a landscape scene containing trees and buildings, overlaid with large split palmettes, to the lid and the sides of the body, the sides of the lid with undulating foliate vines, the base with sprigs of flowering plants, the inner lid with three cartouches and two rosettes
26 cm. long
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Examples of lacquer work from the Deccan are rare. The large-scale landscape scene portrayed on the present lot is particularly unusual, in contrast to the figural illustrations or gol-o-bulbul motifs that are more commonly known in lacquer work from Persia and India.
The gold scrollwork decoration on black ground on the side of the lid, however, is typical of Persian and Indian lacquer penboxes and also features in the work of the well-known seventeenth-century artist Rahim Deccani (see: Nasser D. Khalili, B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Arts: Lacquer of the Islamic Lands Part 1, London: The Nour Foudnation, 1996, pp.243-245)
The medallion and cartouche motifs on the lid interior are evocative of Persian book cover decoration, and a similar design also features on the interior wall of the tomb of Ahmad Shah Bahmani I of the Bahmani Sultanate (Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar, Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 : Opulence and Fantasy, New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2015, p. 33, cat. 25).
India, 17th Century
of rectangular form with curved ends, of papier-mâché and wood decorated in polychrome and gold with a landscape scene containing trees and buildings, overlaid with large split palmettes, to the lid and the sides of the body, the sides of the lid with undulating foliate vines, the base with sprigs of flowering plants, the inner lid with three cartouches and two rosettes
26 cm. long
Footnotes:
Examples of lacquer work from the Deccan are rare. The large-scale landscape scene portrayed on the present lot is particularly unusual, in contrast to the figural illustrations or gol-o-bulbul motifs that are more commonly known in lacquer work from Persia and India.
The gold scrollwork decoration on black ground on the side of the lid, however, is typical of Persian and Indian lacquer penboxes and also features in the work of the well-known seventeenth-century artist Rahim Deccani (see: Nasser D. Khalili, B.W. Robinson and Tim Stanley, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Arts: Lacquer of the Islamic Lands Part 1, London: The Nour Foudnation, 1996, pp.243-245)
The medallion and cartouche motifs on the lid interior are evocative of Persian book cover decoration, and a similar design also features on the interior wall of the tomb of Ahmad Shah Bahmani I of the Bahmani Sultanate (Navina Najat Haidar and Marika Sardar, Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700 : Opulence and Fantasy, New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2015, p. 33, cat. 25).
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A Deccani lacquer penbox India, 17th Century
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