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Room 33 | Mughal India 1500-1900 gallery

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Brass pandan

  • Description

    Floral motifs appear in much of the decorative art of north India and the Deccan in the Mughal period. This lidded box for pan (a chewing-quid of betel leaf and areca nut, popular throughout India) has engraved flowering plants with stylised ‘Chinese’ clouds and scrollwork, which would originally have been filled with red or green lac inlays.

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaIndia north India (place of creation)
    Date
    2nd half of the 17th century
    Material and technique
    brass, engraved
    Dimensions
    9 x 11.2 x 16.4 cm (height x width x depth)
    at base 4.8 x 11.2 x 16.4 cm (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    Technique index
    formed cast,
    Object type index
    No. of items
    2
    Credit line
    Purchased, 1993.
    Accession no.
    EA1993.393
  • Further reading

    Zebrowski, Mark, Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India (London: Alexandria Press in association with Laurence King, 1997), p. 227, fig. 473 & pl. 492

Location

    • First floor | Room 33 | Mughal India

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