AN ANGLO-INDIAN VIZAGAPATAM BONE AND CARVED SANDALWOOD SEWING BOX, ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Of typical rectangular shape, imitating the design of a jewellery casket or sarcophagus, resting on four rounded and gadrooned ivory feet, rising to an everted hinged lid with an ivory sunburst section at the top with a double rosette ivory finial in the centre, the edges enhanced with incised and black-painted decorative bands with lush vine trellis, foliage and grape bunches, a typical motif of the Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam ivory production, the interior divided into two levels, the upper level made of a lift-out tray with several open and lidded compartments, the plain lower level constituting an extra storage element.
25 by 19.5 by 14.5 cm.