A KHOLMOGORY SCHOOL CARVED BONE BOX WITH MUGHAL INFLUENCE, 18TH...

A KHOLMOGORY SCHOOL CARVED BONE BOX WITH MUGHAL INFLUENCE, 18TH CENTURY

An important carved bone box, pierced, engraved and colored with square shaped mica sheets, the lid with sloping shoulders.
The whole is richly carved with openwork plaques, which are heavily- inspired by Mughal decoration. The decorative plaques represent love, birds, dogs, squirrels and hunters, along with foliate-silhouetted rocks. The bottom part with interlaced quatrefoils; fleurs-de-lys, branches, foliage.
Kholmogory School.
Arkhangelsk region.

Height: 28.2 cm.
Length: 38 cm.