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LNS 191 W

Wooden marquetry kit-box for a calligrapher inlaid with wood, ivory and dyed bone and inlaid with gold-painted ivory panels

Inv. no. LNS 191 W
Mitred, mortised and tenoned, covered in micro-mosaic (khatamkari work), ivory panels carved in openwork, and with gold-painted areas (other painted areas probably later)
Height 9.2 cm; length 36.6 cm
India, late 16th – early 17th century AD
late 10th – early 11th century AH

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