Two copper and silver-overlaid dishes, Tamil Nadu, South India, 20th century, comprising two circular brass dishes, each on a gently rounded, plain base, the repoussé and high-chased silver and copper-overlaid decoration typical of Tamil Nadu metalware production, one dish with a central repoussé silver roundel with Krishna playing the flute next to a cow, the latter with Shiva Nataraja squashing the dwarf of ignorance, each roundel surrounded by several concentric decorative bands with birds, elephants, flowers and vegetal motifs interspersed by a band of copper beading, the smaller dish 31cm diam. the larger dish 33cm diam.