A LACQUERED AND GILT PAPIER-MÂCHÉ KASHMIRI PEN CASE
Possibly Srinagar, Kashmir, Northern India, 19th century

A LACQUERED AND GILT PAPIER-MÂCHÉ KASHMIRI PEN CASE
Possibly Srinagar, Kashmir, Northern India, 19th century

With rounded ends and sliding tray, polychrome-painted, gilt, and lacquered, the top and sides decorated with rows of roundels in-filled with dense gold vegetal meanderings, the same foliated sprays repeated in the spaces in-between the roundels, all set against a black ground, the underside and the interior of the inner tray with stylised rosette sprays against green ground, the sides of the inner tray with blue and gold vegetal meanderings against a white ground, 29cm long.

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Dimensions: 29cm long