A MINIATURE INDO-PORTUGUESE MOTHER-OF-PEARL DISH
INDIA, GUJARAT, 17TH CENTURY
£7,560
Auction: 11 December 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
with rounded sides with narrow flat jagged-edged rim, on a short brass foot ring, composed of mother-of-pearl sections forming a circular panel with radiating panels, brass band below the rim
Dimensions
2.5cm high; 10cm diameter
Provenance
Select Property from Penicuik House, Midlothian, Scotland.
Penicuik Estate, situated to the south-west of Edinburgh at the foot of the Pentlands, has been owned by the Clerk family since the middle of the 17th century. In 1654 the merchant John Clerk (1611-1674), who had made his fortune in Paris, purchased the Estate with the existing house Newbiggin from the heirs of Margaret Scott, the Countess of Eglinton. In 1647 John Clerk married Mary Gray, fourth daughter of Sir William Gray of Pittendrum by whom he had five sons and five daughters. He married for a second time in 1670 to Elizabeth Johnston, and upon his death he was succeeded by his eldest son, John Clerk, who became the 1st Baronet in 1679.