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Material: Sandalwood
Middle Eastern Moorish Jewelry Box
Located in Delray Beach, FL
exquisite middle Eastern Moorish Syrian inlay jewelry box. This box is intricately inlaid with Moorish motif designs which have been uniquely inlaid with bone, mother of pearl and f...
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19C Anglo Ceylonese Specimen Wood Trinket Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A BEAUTIFUL and RARE 19C Anglo Ceylonese Specimen Wood Trinket Box.
Made in ‘Galle’, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) circa 1860-80.
Made for the ex...
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19C Anglo Indian Bombay MOP Sadeli Mosaic Trinket Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING a LOVELY 19C Anglo Indian Bombay MOP (Mother of Pearl) Sadeli Mosaic Trinket Box from circa 1875-85.
Gorgeously detailed and hand-crafted ‘sadeli mosaic’ inlay, from the Bombay Area, with deep greens with silver, pewter, mother of pearl, bone and ebony in geometric patterns.
The box case, is made of sandalwood but completely covered in MOP, bone, faux ivory, ebony and mosaic inlay.
Edged with faux ivory and banded with a different pattern of sadeli mosaic.
Some minor damage to the top (repair is obvious in pics) and ivorine replacements to some edging, but it still a BEAUTIFUL BOX and of real QUALITY!
The mosaic work is FABULOUS!
Box opens to reveal its original blue velvet lining.
It sits on 4 (recently added) silvered button feet.
SADELI MOSAIC: “Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
The ancient art of Sadeli Mosaic is said to have been introduced from Shiraz in Persia via Sind to Bombay, a long time before the Anglo Indian boxes were made. It was a technique, which required a high degree of skill and patience. It was executed very lavishly, in that the frequent cuts wasted a great amount of the precious materials used. The workmanship was however more than commensurable to the value of the materials.
Ivory, silver, pewter (or other metals), wood and horn were cut into faceted rods which were bound together to form geometric patterns. When the glue has set, the rods were sliced in transverse sections. This gave the maker a number of angled circular pieces in the original pattern. Several variations of patterns could be achieved by combining the materials in different ways. The ivory was sometimes dyed green to give an extra color.
The mosaic pieces in a combination of patterns, often separated by ivory, ebony, horn or silver stringing were used to veneer sandalwood boxes. In the early boxes, which date from the turn of the 18th to the 19th century, there are large panels of mosaic covering tops and sides of boxes. It took incredible skill to cover such large areas without any shakes or wavering of the pattern. The corners and joins on these boxes are impeccably matched.
The makers (reputed to be Persian) of Sadeli mosaic made in the first two decades of the 19th century displayed a total understanding of the qualities of the different materials they used. They combined substances, which can expand and contract according to atmospheric conditions with others, which are hard and unyielding. The result was a sharp definition of the lines and patterns, which made up the whole design.
On the early boxes the designs look deceptively simple. The fact is, they emerged from a culture, which had mastered geometry and understood how to generate a pattern from a set number of points. The patterns are so harmoniously combined that their incredible complexity is not immediately apparent.
The earliest Sadeli boxes...
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19C Anglo Indian Carved Padouk Wood and Sadeli Mosaic Box
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING A LOVELY 19th century Anglo-Indian Carved Padouk Wood and Sadeli Mosaic Box, featuring a carving of a Hunt Scene.
Made circa 1870 in Bombay, India during the Rule of th...
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Art Deco Python Sandalwood Cigar / jewelry box
Located in Westport, CT
Art Deco python and Channeled sandalwood Mens Cigar / storage box with chrome bar front , felt bottom
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Large 19th Century Sandalwood Jewellery Box, South India
Located in London, GB
The dense carving of this 19th century South Indian sandalwood jewellery box is so lively and animated.
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Anglo Raj Hand-Carved Wooden Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand-carved large wooden Anglo-Raj jewelry box.
Early 20th century wood box richly decorated overall with arabesques and floral carving.
Hinged lid shallow relief carving with interi...
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Anglo Raj Hand Carved Wooden Decorative Jewelry Box
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Hand carved large wooden Anglo-Raj jewelry box.
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Hinged lid shallow relief carving with inte...
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19th Century Anglo-Indian Mughal Box
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19th century Anglo-Indian Mughal wood box, inlaid and hand carved with the Taj Mahal and some flowers all around.
Jewelry box, Anglo-Raj box from India in great condition.
Nice Mughal Bombay Box...
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This one is in BEAUTIFUL CONDITION for its age!
From circa 1850-1860 and made in the Region of Bombay, India for the British market.
The ‘sadeli mosaic’ on this box, is classically an early version, of this type of mosaic work and is ‘coarse’ to the touch. Because of this, most boxes with this type of mosaic, have not survived intact for 170 years, without major losses to the mosaic, from dusting, cleaning, etc.
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From circa 1850-60 and made in the Region of Bombay, India for the British market.
The interior is lined in its original red velvet lining.
The box sits on it’s original 4 brass bulbous feet and the red velvet is also on the base underside.
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SADELI MOSAIC: “Anglo Indian boxes were made in India for the English residents from the early part of the 18th century. They were brought back or sent back to England usually by the people who had commissioned them. From the beginning of the nineteenth century they were imported more commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the middle decades. They were very highly valued, especially the early ones, to the extent that the designs were copied on late 19th and early 20th century tins.
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Ivory, silver, pewter (or other metals), wood and horn were cut into faceted rods which were bound together to form geometric patterns. When the glue has set, the rods were sliced in transverse sections. This gave the maker a number of angled circular pieces in the original pattern. Several variations of patterns could be achieved by combining the materials in different ways. The ivory was sometimes dyed green to give an extra color.
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