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Islamic Indo Persian kulah khud helmet with Arabic hand engravings. Hand forged, made of heavy tinned copper metal Middle eastern influence warrior helmet ...

Persian hand painted lacquer pen box in rectangular shape. Decorated with floral designs on gold background, black interior. Moorish Mughal pen box papier maché with miniature floral painting in the Persian style. Great Islamic Art collector museum quality piece on this miniature painting on box. Nice Mughal Indo Persian pen Box...

Exquisite handcrafted white mother of pearl inlaid and hand carved lidded box. Small octagonal Anglo Indian decorative box intricately decorated with Moorish motif designs which hav...

Middle Eastern Persian style hand painted lacquer pen box in rectangular shape. Decorated with floral designs on black background. Moorish pen box papier maché. Size is 8" x 2" x 1.25" height. Overall good condition. Great Islamic Art collector museum quality piece on this miniature painting on box. Wear consistent with age and use. Nice Mughal Indo Persian pen Box.

This 18th century Indian ”Bidriware” hookah base is beautifully intricate. Makes a statement on its own or modernize it and use as a candleholder. Bidri is...

Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn. Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving. Vizagapatam, late 19th century. History of the Anglo-Indian Boxes Beginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century. Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid; sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/ The first two categories came from Vizagapatam in East India while the last two came from Bombay in West India. English traders discovered the rich woods and intricate workmanship of Indian artisans, so colonial government officials began to recognize the work of the Indian artists and craftsmen as a source for satisfying the need for furniture and boxes, which would both serve to enhance English households in India. This gave rise to the cabinetmaking workshops in Vizagapatam between Calcutta and Madras. Craftsmen made the first boxes to be decorated with Sadeli mosaic of rosewood or ebony, incised to give further definition to the decoration, directly inlaid into the wood. The shape of the early boxes was either sloping at the front with a flatter section at the back, reminiscent of English writing slopes, or rectangular. Artisans inlaid the borders with stylized floral scrolls and the centers with a single floral motif following a circular or oval symmetrical or asymmetrical pattern. The edging was ornamental and protective, both helped protect the end grain against the weather. Made in Vizagapatam, situated on the south east coast of India, near Madras These exotic boxes...

19th century Anglo-Indian wooden box fitted with various compartments finely hand carved. The top is finely hand carved with the Taj Mahal. The interior with removable hand carved nine-lidded compartments, the front cover has a mirror, the whole exhibiting very fine workmanship. This fine late Victorian Anglo-Indian box from India is in great condition for it age. A beautiful example of an Anglo-Indian fine art...

Antique architectural carved wood temple truss fragment from Rajasthan, India. 19th century Hindu temple fragment. This antique fragment were elements...

Antique architectural carved wood temple fragment from Rajasthan, India. 19th century Hindu temple fragment. This antique fragment were elements of a section of hand carved wood fri...

Antique architectural carved wood temple fragment from Rajasthan, India.   Made into a wall bracket stand.   19th century Hindu temple fragment. This anti...

Antique architectural carved wood temple truss fragment from Rajasthan, India. 19th century Hindu temple fragment. This antique fragment were elements of a section of hand carved wo...

Pair of mounted antique architectural carved wood fragment from Europe mounted. This antique fragment were elements of a section of...

Antique architectural carved wood temple truss fragment from Rajasthan, India. Large and heavy wood hand carved fragment architectural temple fragment...

Antique architectural carved wood temple truss fragment from Rajasthan India. Large and heavy wood hand carved fragment architectural temple fragment ...

Antique architectural carved wood temple truss fragment from Rajasthan India. Large and heavy wood hand carved fragment architectural temple fragment. Depicting a bird, foliages an...

Asian opium pipe box holder with a peacock head filigree art work designs, and in the form of an Veena Indian string instrument. Silvered metal alloy, patinated open to hold the pip...

Set of six antique Anglo-Indian trays that fit into a stack. The wood is likely rosewood with attractive grains and the trays are inlaid with a star in the center consisting of bon...

Burmese bamboo temple offering lidded box, basket. This kind of wooden basket is used to transport and display offerings to Buddhist temples, in Asia....

Pair of 19th century hand-carved oversized wooden Indian temple horses with poly-chrome decorated sitting a top of a wheeled board.  Large heavy An...