AN ENGRAVED BRONZE PANDAN BOX
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
Northern India, late 18th - 19th century

Of elongated octagonal shape, resting on a flat plain base, the hinged lid designed as a stepped casket lid, terminating in a pierced bud-like finial, the exterior engraved with stylised lotus flowers and vegetal trellis against a ring-punched ground, chevron and rope-twisted decorative registers around the edges, the interior plain, 12.8cm x 14.5cm.