Basket Weave Quiver with Engraved Silver Gilt Mounts

India, 19th century

70cm high, 11cm wide

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Basket Weave Quiver with Engraved Silver Gilt Mounts

The container of slightly flattened conical shape; the silver tip with finely engraved birds in flight on a stippled ground. The lipped opening with scalloped gilt silver mounts showing a monkey flanked by a parade of animals on a stippled ground with two diamond patterned protrusions on either side of the opening and a central ring around the shaft to which a silver carrying chain is attached. 

Basket Weave Quiver with Engraved Silver Gilt Mounts


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