A silver-gilt filigree incense burner possibly for the Ottoman market, Gujarat, India, 18th century

of five component parts secured by a central rivet, the spherical upper section with domed hinged cover supported on a narrow baluster neck with splayed petalled base resting on three waisted feet, the domed hinged cover surmounted with faceted projections with crescent finials, decorated throughout with openwork filigree scrolls bordered by narrow pearl bands, loops suspending chains with tulip-shaped charms

Overall good condition, areas of patination and minor dents, some rubbings to gilding, loose shaft, as viewed.
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A group of late eighteenth-century pandan and thali boxes in the Victoria and Albert Museum have comparable filigree decoration (see Terlinden 1987, p.137, no. 187). Similar spiralling filigree scrolls are also seen on a seventeenth-century Indo-Portuguese silver-gilt filigree casket sold through these rooms 18 October 2001, lot 144.

The decorative technique of filigree is believed to have originated from China but was also used throughout Eastern and Southern India. The technique gained popularity in Indo-Portuguese silver from the sixteenth century onwards.