TWO INDIAN SILVER REPOUSSÉ SUGAR BOWLS Bhuj, Kutch
TWO INDIAN SILVER REPOUSSÉ SUGAR BOWLS Bhuj, Kutch, North Western India, ca. 1900 Comprising an European-shaped lidded sugar bowl, with hemispherical body on a splayed short foot, decorated with scrolling vegetal tendrils, the lid handle bird-shaped, 11cm high; and an English-shaped sugar bowl with S-shaped handles, on a splayed foot, similar vegetal decoration, the cartouche engraved with the crest of a dove closed, holding in the mouth an olive branch fructed, with motto below HOPE, all above K. W. 1869-94, 9cm diam. and 8cm high. The crest is probably for the Harkness family, the motto: Hope in God. For similar teaset pieces with European crests, please refer to Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858 - 1947, London, 1999, p. 96, tab. 161.
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TWO INDIAN SILVER REPOUSSÉ SUGAR BOWLS Bhuj, Kutch, North Western India, ca. 1900 Comprising an European-shaped lidded sugar bowl, with hemispherical body on a splayed short foot, decorated with scrolling vegetal tendrils, the lid handle bird-shaped, 11cm high; and an English-shaped sugar bowl with S-shaped handles, on a splayed foot, similar vegetal decoration, the cartouche engraved with the crest of a dove closed, holding in the mouth an olive branch fructed, with motto below HOPE, all above K. W. 1869-94, 9cm diam. and 8cm high. The crest is probably for the Harkness family, the motto: Hope in God. For similar teaset pieces with European crests, please refer to Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858 - 1947, London, 1999, p. 96, tab. 161.
Notes: Islamic & Indian Art
