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Lot 249
Sale 5390 - English & Continental Furniture & Decorative Arts
Oct 9, 2012
6:00AM ET
null / Philadelphia
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Estimate
$800 -
1,200
Price Realized
$600
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Good collection of twenty-four Indo-Persian metal items 19th/20th century
Comprising a large brass, copper and steel basin, the sides decorated to show Persian script and scrolling foliage; a large copper charger; three circular boxes with domed lid repousse worked to show birds in roundels, one with manuscript label underneath "Benares, India, 1900"; a circular copper planter; a gilt and red enameled brass dish worked to show peacocks; a pierced incense container with domed hinged lid; a copper spice box, labelled 'Madras'; a small brass spice or betel box; a coffee pot; a dagger; and nine other items, brass trays, caskets etc. (24).
Various sizes