Antique After Eight's lol
Maybe? but seems rather padded for just gaming tokens. The truth is I'm completely in the dark. I did think maybe glass photo plates or glass...
I know this box isn't after 1850 and I suspect it might be early 1800, Persian, 150mm in length. I've never seen velvet divisions with padding in...
No oil, just dry cleaned the carving and sanded the sadeli, fixed the crack and addressed the missing bitts. Oh and turned 4 new feet from horn.
Thank you :) These photos were taken at night, I hoped they would show the carving but I don't think the do. Again before and after [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Before and after restoration.[ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Sorry I didn't look at when it went out, when I posted the message it was still live with a bid of $80, $200 is about right for a portrait.
https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/194689925_anglo-indian-mughal-19th-c-portrait-miniature-of-a-woman I use this site to see what's going on in...
Yeah, there's no doubt here in the UK we see far more than any other places in the world, including India. In fact I've never bought anything...
This week I bought these as well, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/326405368340 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/116325062039
May I ask where here is? I hope it's easy to see the difference. I did use my boxes to show, I know they can be worse. This is the one I bought...
Looks like a Scottish person owned this around 1820's, it's not my field so I don't know if these are faked so don't hold me to my assumption.
Example of a totally carved box (bad photo) [ATTACH]
Example of a very well done box both Sadeli and carving, it doesn't get better than this until the whole box is carved, not just panels. [ATTACH]...
Example of a bad, poorly done, mass produced box. Sadeli is well done but the carving is bad [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
lovely, figured maple I would say
This one is cheap but I wouldn't recommend trying the restoration, I restored my one and it was a pig to do. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/126510721414
Firstly thank you for saying my box looks better but I'm afraid the one in bonhams is far better, also the £1000-£1500 estimate was in 2007, today...
It's unbelievable to see this article mentions Monghyr, this is so rare and nobody knows what it's called. I did a post when I got my first...
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