拍品专文
A chattari of very similar form and slightly simpler decoration, previously in the collection of Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison, was recently sold at Bonham’s London, 8 October 2013, lot 225.
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PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
细节
A SIKH SILVER REPOUSSÉ PARASOL (CHATTRI)
PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Of dome-shape rising to a flattened rounded knop and with a skirt of cusped hanging ornaments below, the sides decorated in repoussé with a band of roundels containing portraits of the ten Sikh Gurus with Guru Gobind Singh in an enlarged roundel at the front, set on a ground of scrolling floral vine and a band of cusped palmette above, the finial and some of the hanging elements now missing
7in. (17.8cm.) diam.
PUNJAB, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Of dome-shape rising to a flattened rounded knop and with a skirt of cusped hanging ornaments below, the sides decorated in repoussé with a band of roundels containing portraits of the ten Sikh Gurus with Guru Gobind Singh in an enlarged roundel at the front, set on a ground of scrolling floral vine and a band of cusped palmette above, the finial and some of the hanging elements now missing
7in. (17.8cm.) diam.
拍场告示
Please note that contrary to lot description the central roundel contains a depiction of Guru Nanak
荣誉呈献
Andrew Butler-Wheelhouse