A SMALL ENAMELLED COFFEE POT Kashmir, North India, 19th
A SMALL ENAMELLED COFFEE POT Kashmir, North India, 19th century Of typical shape, the compressed globular body resting on a pierced splayed foot and rising to a flaring neck, the hemispherical lid decorated with a bird finial and attached to the body with a chain, the sinuous handle reminiscent of earlier dragon handles, the blue and green champlevé enamelled decoration consisting of floral sprays and palmettes, a round of peacocks on the neck,15.5cm high. As Wynyard Wilkinson explains, Mughal pieces produced in this exact shape and decoration in the 1720s became the main prototypes and inspiration for the later 19th-century examples, such as this. For a strikingly similar Kashmiri enamelled coffee pot, please see Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858 - 1947, London, 1999, p. 120, tab. 204.
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A SMALL ENAMELLED COFFEE POT Kashmir, North India, 19th century Of typical shape, the compressed globular body resting on a pierced splayed foot and rising to a flaring neck, the hemispherical lid decorated with a bird finial and attached to the body with a chain, the sinuous handle reminiscent of earlier dragon handles, the blue and green champlevé enamelled decoration consisting of floral sprays and palmettes, a round of peacocks on the neck,15.5cm high. As Wynyard Wilkinson explains, Mughal pieces produced in this exact shape and decoration in the 1720s became the main prototypes and inspiration for the later 19th-century examples, such as this. For a strikingly similar Kashmiri enamelled coffee pot, please see Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858 - 1947, London, 1999, p. 120, tab. 204.
Notes: Islamic & Indian Art
