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Lot 133

A copper alloy model of a mounted soldier : a musket man on his camel, Vizagapatam, South India,...

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Lot 133

A copper alloy model of a mounted soldier : a musket man on his camel,
Vizagapatam, South India,...

Price Realised: £11,808

Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000

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Lot 133

Description

A copper alloy model of a mounted soldier : a musket man on his camel,
Vizagapatam, South India, circa 1795,

On rectangular base, mustachioed, a feather in his turban, a shield slung over his left shoulder, his tulwar, stringed bow and quiver affixed to the saddle, on associated wooden stand

12cm. high

 

Note:

The Vizagapatam Toy Soldiers are a set of late-eighteenth century brass toy soldiers held by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the National Army Museum, and the Sandringham and Madras Museums in India. A number of other soldiers are thought to be privately owned. Vizagapatam was an epic city and famous at the time for its bronze casting. The models represent the troops of the Sultanate of Mysore at the time, which was ruled by Tipu Sultan (1750-1799), also known as the Tiger of Mysore. The toy army may have been made for one (or several) of his 16 sons.

For comparable soldiers in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, see S. Digby and J.C. Harle, Toy Soldiers and Ceremonial in Post-Mughal India, 1982, plate 9.

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