A LARGE AND HEAVY MID-20TH CENTURY INDIAN UNMARKED SILVER BETEL MARRIAGE CASKET
Delhi, North India, Post-Raj period, circa 1950

Of compressed circular form, raised in six cast lion statant feet with gourd-like panels with chased birds and foliate forms, the hinged centre with bands of trailing foliate scrolls and rosettes, the hinged lock plate with chased billing birds and flower sprays, a wrought and applied stop to the reverse, the lid surmounted by a hinged lid box section of domed form surmounted by a cast elephant wearing a houda blanket finial chased upon a landscape, 29.6cm diam., 5650 grams / 181.65 ozt