This bidri pandan set comprises nine separate boxes with lids or covers and a circular matching tray. It might also have been used a s a spice box set (masaladan). It is heavy, weight just over three kilograms. The cruciform arrangement of the nine boxes is very unusual – we have not seen a set … Read more
20 monochrome borders from India in one colored (with or without background, depending on the geometry) and one b&w (transparent) version. The designs are
Bidri Tray with Petals
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This fine, hemispherical bowl with a flared ring foot is decorated with silver inlay and a darkened ground known as the Bidri technique. The sides are decorated with carnation flower scrolls within scrolling borders. The lower register has an additional lotus petal border. The foot is decorated with a row of silver leaf-like dashes, and … Read more
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Bidri silver-inlaid magic or medicine bowls are relatively rare. Several examples are in the National Museum, Delhi and illustrated in Lal (1990). Another example was offered as lot 175 in Sotheby’s ‘Arts of the Islamic World’ sale, April 14, 2010. Those in which the ground is silver rather than dark enamel, such as the example … Read more
Bidri Huqqa (Water Pipe) Base with Lotuses Emerging from a Pond Object Name: Water pipe base Date: mid-17th century Geography: India, Bidar Culture: Islamic Medium: Zinc alloy inlaid with brass and silver Dimensions: H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm) Classification: Metal Credit Line: Private Collection, London
Rare Silver-Inlaid Bidri Bowl with Fish Bidar, Deccan India late 18th century diameter: 14.2cm, height: 6cm, weight: 674g This very pleasing and rare type of bidri bowl features a conventional exterior of repeated stylised poppy motifs in a band of cartouches but a highly unusual interior of fishes swimming about a central floral medallion. Zebrowski … Read more
Bidri silver-inlaid magic or medicine bowls are relatively rare. Several examples are in the National Museum, Delhi and illustrated in Lal (1990). Another example was offered as lot 175 in Sotheby’s ‘Arts of the Islamic World’ sale, April 14, 2010. Those in which the ground is silver rather than dark enamel, such as the example … Read more
Early Brass-inlaid Jar India 17th century or earlier height: 9cm, diameter: 10.7cm, weight: 378g This jar or vase is of flattened spherical form is about the size of a small cannonball. It is largely covered by a fish scale design in brass around most of its body. The base is undecorated but surrounded by a … Read more
Bidri silver-inlaid magic or medicine bowls are relatively rare. Several examples are in the National Museum, Delhi and illustrated in Lal (1990). Another example was offered as lot 175 in Sotheby’s ‘Arts of the Islamic World’ sale, April 14, 2010. Those in which the ground is silver rather than dark enamel, such as the example … Read more
This circular tray is decorated in a form of Bidri work known as tehnishan work. It has a central lotus flower roundel around which there is a border of eleven stylised poppy flowers. The outer rim is decorated with floral scrollwork. A small circular tray of almost identical proportions and design that is attributed to … Read more
