Live Auction 5745The Country House Sale: Pomfret House and Tetworth Hall
AN ANGLO-INDIAN ELK HORN VENEERED SEWING CASKET
Lot 30

AN ANGLO-INDIAN ELK HORN VENEERED SEWING CASKET

VIZAGAPATAM, MID-19TH CENTURY

Closed5 November 2008

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GBP 3,250

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AN ANGLO-INDIAN ELK HORN VENEERED SEWING CASKET
VIZAGAPATAM, MID-19TH CENTURY
The sandalwood lined interior with engraved ivory compartments and horn banding
8¾ in. (22.2 cm.) high; 14½ in. (37 cm.) wide; 11¼ in. (28.5 cm.) deep

Specialist note

For a similar elk horn veneered sewing casket see Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, London, 2001, fig. 61., p. 214.