Another box from my Anglo Indian collection. This is a wonderful vizagapatam trinket box, unusual to find being ivory veneered and to have...
They aren't the highest quality made boxes but it has a lovely feel. Still it must have taken some time to inlay the 1000's of bits of ivory and...
As promised (after finding a file compressing program) I will post some of my Anglo Indian collection, starting with one of my favorite boxes....
I will be posting as soon as I can workout how to compress photo files :(
It's only one of 2 items I own that are a complete mystery to me :( Maybe someone in here will know for sure.
It's such a wide field, I'll do some new posts in the discussion forum for now until I learn to navigate the site, I have some nice bits, Asian...
You would think there must be a generic name for such carvings
I have tried for many hours over the last year but only the above picture frame I can say it's close enough to be of the same ilk.
Yup it's the closest I can find, I was hoping that someone would know what that sort of carving is called so I could look it up rather than me...
The one above says it's Viennese, I did once think Black Forest (French) but the closest thing I can find is the one above, nothing else comes...
Oh well if you insist :) I will be doing photos soon, I don't know where I should be putting these "show off" posts? I can't find a boxes category :(
No not at all, I have many Anglo Indian items, mainly boxes, ebony carved, Sadeli, hoshiarpur, solid ivory, I do have other works of art Indian...
I have found this picture frame that looks very much like mine, it's described as a Venetian carved picture frame but doesn't have a date value...
My guess is that the name on the back may have been the owner or retailer but I can't find anything to do with that name and it's manufacture. As...
Very nice, I'd say they were Indian too, they remind me of Indian carved chess pieces
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I think that grove is where a original hanging was, there is a turned up hook in the wood at the bottom and 2 screw holes further up the grove but...
It's hard to capture the details with my camera but it's very well done
Yes deferentially something to do with wine
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