BEAUTIFUL COMB WITH AN ESSENTIAL OIL RESERVOIR, INDIA, MOGUL

BEAUTIFUL COMB WITH AN ESSENTIAL OIL RESERVOIR, INDIA, MOGUL ART, LATE 19TH CENTURY. Made of partially gilded silver, with sculpted, chiseled, engraved, openwork, and cut-out decoration. With a tapered shape, it is topped by a pair of peacocks facing each other, separated by a gilded screw-top dome that unscrews clockwise to fill the body of the comb with perfume, which then slowly diffused into the hair through small holes between the comb’s teeth. Good condition. Some signs of wear. Dimensions: 4.5 x 8.5 x 0.5 cm. Weight: 6 grams. For similar combs, see the auction catalog: Christie’s, Arts of the Orient and the Indies, 19th–21st Centuries, Paris, March 7, 2007, lot 100, and the exhibition catalog: Christiane Serra Fabri-Terlinden, *Mughal Silver Magnificence*, Antalga, 1987, p. 97, ill. 121.