A good 18th Century Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam and rosewood two compartment box, the whole inlaid with borders of stylized leaves and flowerheads, the inlay further engraved and highlighted with lac, the cover to the main compartment inlaid with flowering stems issuing from a stylized shell, the rear compartment divided into three, lozenge shaped escutcheon, the interior plain other than long gilt metal hinges, 43cm wide, c.1740 Fine boxes such as these were made in Vizagapatam on the south-east coat of India, between Calcutta and Madras in the early to mid 18th Century, mainly for the European market. Vizagapatam was a busy trading port initially exporting textiles but then diversified into making wears such as this box. Jaffer (2001. Page 181) comments "the complex design of fine inlaid scrolling vines and flowers is found on a group of boxes and cabinet wear dating from the first half of the 18th Century
A good 18th Century Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam and rosewood two compartment box, the whole inlaid with borders of stylized leaves and flowerheads, the inlay further engraved and highlighted with lac, the cover to the main compartment inlaid with flowering stems issuing from a stylized shell, the rear compartment divided into three, lozenge shaped escutcheon, the interior plain other than long gilt metal hinges, 43cm wide, c.1740 Fine boxes such as these were made in Vizagapatam on the south-east coat of India, between Calcutta and Madras in the early to mid 18th Century, mainly for the European market. Vizagapatam was a busy trading port initially exporting textiles but then diversified into making wears such as this box. Jaffer (2001. Page 181) comments "the complex design of fine inlaid scrolling vines and flowers is found on a group of boxes and cabinet wear dating from the first half of the 18th Century
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