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LOT 2484
Copper-alloy Cosmetic Container
MUGHAL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/4 in. (477 grams, 18.5 cm).
Standing on four slender legs, squat body and long tapering neck with flared rim, screw top with a lotus flower finial, densely arranged flower and geometric decoration. [No Reserve]
Provenance
An important collection of Hindu art formed by the late Jeffery Romer in the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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