A SILVER REPOUSSÉ THREE-PIECE TEASET WITH MAKERS MARK ‘VK’
NORTHWEST INDIA, KUTCH OR BOMBAY, CIRCA 1890
£3,276
Auction: Indian Art | Lots 67 to 83 | 12 June at 10am
Description
comprising a teapot, double-handled sugar bowl and milk pourer, each profusely decorated in low relief with scrolling floral vines, animals, fish-scale handles, surmounted with elephant finials, each with one with a bare shield on its body, each stamped ‘VK’ on base
Dimensions
largest: 13.5cm (5 ¼in) high 20cm (7 7/8in) length, 10cm (4in) depth
Footnote
Literature:
Wynyard Wilkinson, The Makers of Indian Silver 1858-1947, London, 1987, p. 70, for other silver stamped with ‘VK’.
Note:
For a very similar 3-piece tea set on display in the Victoria and Albert Museum, see accession nos. 162,163 and 164-2007.