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Lot 132

An Anglo-Indian sadeli work chest, Bombay, India, early 19th century Of rectangular shape, with...

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Lot 132

An Anglo-Indian sadeli work chest, 
Bombay, India, early 19th century
Of rectangular shape, with...

Price Realised: £1,968

Estimate: £2,000 - £2,500

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Lot 132

Description

An Anglo-Indian sadeli work chest, 
Bombay, India, early 19th century

Of rectangular shape, with handle either side, decorated overall with geometric inlays, with a sandalwood interior fitted with a tray divided into various covered compartments fitted with ivory and sadeli lids, ivory pots, spools and a pin cushion

12.6 high x 43.2cm wide x 28.5cm deep

A comparative example is Illustrated in Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon: A Catalogue of the Collections in the V&A and the Peabody Essex Museum, 2001, p. 313.

Workboxes, portable writing desks, inkstands and jewellery boxes were among the variety of nineteenth-century items decorated with geometric micromosaic patterns, called sadeli. Although the generic term “Bombay boxes” is used for a range of boxes decorated in this fashion, production was not limited to Bombay, as Amin Jaffer points out (Jaffer, 2001, p. 313). Sadeli boxes were popular souvenirs with travellers to India and Queen Charlotte owned three sadeli boxes “of Bombay work”(Jaffer 2001, p.314).

The sadeli technique came to India from Shiraz in the sixteenth century. It consists of binding together lengths of geometrically shaped rods of diverse materials such as tin, copper, horn, ivory, sappan wood and ebony arranged in symmetrical geometric patterns. These rods are sliced through transversely and formed into thin sheets of repeating patterns that are laid over and glued to the wooden carcass.

Ivory exemption:
 
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