Basket Weave Quiver with Engraved Silver Gilt Mounts
India, 19th century
Silver gilt
70cm high, 11cm wide
70cm high, 11cm wide
A3665
Further images
The container of slightly flattened conical shape; the silver tip with finely engraved birds in flight on a stippled ground. The lipped opening with scalloped gilt silver mounts showing a monkey flanked by a parade of animals on a stippled ground with two diamond patterned protrusions on either side of the opening and a central ring around the shaft to which a silver carrying chain is attached.