Featured Indian Brass Table "School of Art Jeypore"

Discussion in 'Antique Discussion' started by 808 raver, Oct 19, 2017.

  1. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    BTW can anybody decipher what this says? DSCF2478 (Medium).JPG
     
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  2. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    the workmanship is a delight !
     
  3. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    The text is in Devanagari, the script used for Sanskrit and many other Asian languages. It is probably an ode to Surya, possibly in Sanskrit.
    Sanskrit is an old Indian language, nowadays mostly used for religious texts. There are only about 1500 native speakers of Sanskrit, and I don't think we have anyone on the forum who is proficient in Sanskrit. Do you have a Hindu temple nearby?
     
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  4. Miscstuff

    Miscstuff Sometimesgetsitright

    Here I was thinking I'll help 808 raver and just pop over to the Devanagari translation website and work out what it said by finding those characters. Ended up here http://www.billie.grosse.is-a-geek.com/alphabet.html and half an hour later decided that I was glad it wasn't taught to me at school. I failed French and Latin and this would have been three for three.

    808 rave find a Hindu temple and look for a really really old Indian guy.:D

    Cheers
    Stephen
     
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  5. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    Thanks so much all, its so much more information than i had on this piece or had gleaned thus far. I did try translating the script using Hindi online,but only one character seemed to match, I love this table, and will invest some time and effort to learn more about it..... Thanks for all the feedback and time you've put in to help :)
     
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  6. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    Ok so I did as told and messaged a admin of a Hindu facebook group and he has told me the inscription is a name "Shree Suraja nangra" or "Mr. Suraja nangra" he also says "it's a very important piece" but hasn't said why :( perhaps I will try to encourage him to elaborate. I have looked up both and the School of art Jeypore but nothing on the net :( but still I'm much further than I was before I posted on here. Any further info would be much appreciated :)
     
  7. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    All I've found so far is that the Orissa metalcrafts had a strong connection to the Maharajas.
     
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  8. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

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  10. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    What is very surprising is that I can find a number of pieces marked SOAJ and nothing about their production :(
     
  11. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    I looked at a youtube video about Orissa metal craft and the pieces seemed more utilitarian, not so finely done. Perhaps that regain is full of metalworkers and I just found the wrong video?
     
  12. Any Jewelry

    Any Jewelry Well-Known Member

    There is a present day school of arts in Jeypore, that was founded by one of the Maharajas. I'm sure they would make better quality items.
     
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  13. 808 raver

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  15. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    so...u still have it ?
     
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  16. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    I do :) Sorry I was just attaching some new info to this piece. It seems there were 2 schools of art Jeypore, 1 opened in June 1867 under the directorship of the surgeon and painter William Frederick de Fabeck and the other established on 17/6/1946 by the Maharaja Late Sri Sri Sri Vikram Dev Verma. This answers a burning question I've had, why are some works so finely done and others so poor in comparison, unfortunately it seems the mark is almost exactly the same but the quality is far apart. The dagger above, my table and this bird are all examples of the first school. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/14561977...+1JuE2m1cqZu20qDm0LCVvDdg=|tkp:Bk9SR7bF9M7iYw
     
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  17. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    Cool !!!!!:happy::hungry::hungry::hungry:

    I don't know all about the origin.....but your tray...and it's ilk.....beat the pants off 99% of the brass trays we see here.........:yuck:

    I'm usually loath to comment on the others as I find the workmanship to be plebeian..........

    Yours is like fine art in comparison !!!!

    & indeed it's a keeper !!!;):hungry::hungry::happy::happy::happy:
     
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  18. 808 raver

    808 raver Well-Known Member

    All the work the earlier school did was just stunning, in fact it's the only metalwork I'll collect, over 150 antiques and only 2 made of metal a table and a very old blacksmith made set of moon scales.
     
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