A SILVER-MOUNTED MOTHER-OF-PEARL POWDER FLASK  Gujarat, North West India, late 17th - 18th century  Formed from a turbo shell (gastropod), with a cylindrical register composed of cut mother-of-pearl panels applied in a floral pattern on the top and in a geometric triangular pattern on the neck, the silver stopper in the form of a flower, with a securing light brown velvet chainlet to the belt ring, approximately 16cm x 14cm. Provenance: Collection Roland de la Poype, Fondateur de Marineland d'Antibes, Musée de la Marine, auctioned by Pichon & Noudel-Deniau, Cannes, 3 December 2016, lot 371. Analogous Gujarati powder flasks have already been successfully sold in the London art market at Christie's London, 7 December 2006, lot 24; Christie's South Kensington, 1 October 2012, lot 45; and Bonhams London, 10 April 2008, lot 299.