Featured Indian inlay bowl

hi folks

found this in our village chazzer today, just admired the work, seems quite a good one/type

any help with age etc would be a great help

 

NICE FIND , CHARLES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@808 raver

 

That Mosaic Inlaid craft is simply amazing to me...I've owned a few pieces, none near as finely done as yours. The precision in cutting, the patience in creating such art is a towering testament to human expression...often, I suspect, by those with only rudimentary education, who earn a pittance for the value of their efforts.
Beautiful...thanks!

 

maybe schooling education......... but whomever made this little gem.......was a Master at his craft !!!!!!

 

the more I look at it ....the finer it gets !!!

I would have snapped that up in a heartbeat !!!!!!!

 

It’s not Indian, I’d say. Persian or thereabouts.

@Any Jewelry

 

Agree, thereabouts. I'd say Middle Eastern or Egyptian.

 

Lovely Chas.

 

You can see where Granada Ware came from, in terms of design, can’t you.

 

thanks for the info guys, same with me kome....i was a bit at first, then on closer inspection

 

are we thinking 'that what cannot be named' as well ?

 

I'd say Eastern Mediterranean somewhere . My guess would be Syria, but I'm not an expert.

 

wait till 808 sees it.......!
bet he likes it !!

 

thanks for the help dude appreciated

 

sharpened a bit with flash

 

Hard to be sure with pix of such tiny segments, but looks more like bone to me.

 

be kinda cool either way bronners...........bone i can sell........ivory more badass

 

Agree. You can find ivory on fine 19th century Syrian and North African furniture sometimes.
But this isn't an antique piece, and camel bone is used a lot in Middle Eastern inlay. Ivory would probably be too expensive nowadays for a nice souvenir from a country that has no native elephants.

I was looking at inlaid ring boxes from Egypt the other day, as a pretty gift box option for ethnic rings I sell. I could get them new for 5-10 euro, and cheaper if I ordered 20.
So even though this inlay work is beautifully detailed and true handwork, present day pieces are not considered upmarket enough to add ivory, besides, most inlay pieces are made for export, so it isn't worth taking the risk.

 

He can buy pieces like this any day, and while they are beautifully made, they are much too recent for him. He hunts for those rare, high quality antique pieces.

 

i tend to agree that it isn't antique....if you look at the wood itself it just doesn't scream that

also that could have been a modern (ish) label removal on the bottom

i get a 70s feel from it ?