A Karachi Chinese-style silver tea set North India, early 20th...
A Karachi Chinese-style silver tea set
North India, early 20th Century
comprising a tray, a teapot, a milk jug and a sugar container, each decorated in repoussé with scenes of village life, the handles of bamboo form, the tray with an openwork border, the teapot with wood handle, cartouches engraved 'M' to each vessel, the teapot, milk jug and tray stamped 'T.90'
the tray 51 x 29.5 cm.; 1,960 g. total weight (4)
Many silversmiths left Kutch and settled in Karachi following the 1899 famine in Kutch. For a comparable tray see Wynyard R.T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858-1947, p. 91, no. 142.
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A Karachi Chinese-style silver tea set
North India, early 20th Century
comprising a tray, a teapot, a milk jug and a sugar container, each decorated in repoussé with scenes of village life, the handles of bamboo form, the tray with an openwork border, the teapot with wood handle, cartouches engraved 'M' to each vessel, the teapot, milk jug and tray stamped 'T.90'
the tray 51 x 29.5 cm.; 1,960 g. total weight (4)
Many silversmiths left Kutch and settled in Karachi following the 1899 famine in Kutch. For a comparable tray see Wynyard R.T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858-1947, p. 91, no. 142.
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