INDIA 19th CENTURY ERA Sandalwood Vizagapatam... Lot 3

INDIA 19th CENTURY ERA Sandalwood Vizagapatam box, rectangular in shape with a slightly curved lid, resting on four claw feet, covered with tortoiseshell and chiselled and openworked ivory plates, with floral decoration and figures in cartouches. The interior is lined with purple velvet. (small accidents and missing parts) South India, Vizagapatam, ca. 1930 26.5 x 12 cm. Height: 8 cm See Amin Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, A catalogue of the collections in the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum, VA Publications, 2001, cat. 68, p. 221, for a similar box commissioned and offered in 1930.