A MOTHER-OF-PEARL CIRCULAR BOX, INDIA, 19TH/20TH CENTURY

Manuel Castilho Antiguidades, Olympia art fair, London.

Although similar to the sixteenth-century mother-of-pearl wares from Gujarat, the decorative style of punching rings into the surface and the inclusion of a red paint inlay is twentieth century (see a comparable in the British Museum, London, inv.no. 1913,1222.41).