Large Indo-Portuguese box, West India, Gujarat.
It is inlaid with Indian rosewood and ebony, inlaid with bone and ivory. Late 18th century.
It is inlaid on four sides with a checkerboard decoration of squares on the tip, quilted with ivory. The lock entries are in square trefoil and the drawer knobs are in ivory.
It opens with five drawers in three rows, one of which simulating two. Double twisted side handles on openworked copper alloy rose window (one key).
H: 36 cm; W: 45.5 cm; D: 34.3 cm
Interior of drawers covered with marbled paper.
These large models had no flap front and rested on four pides boules.
Two small lacks in the veneer (kept with a key).
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