Description

Anglo Indian Ivory Vizagapatam Tea Chestwith engraved & lac filled decoration of colonial houses bordered by flowing floral patterns, stands on bracket feet and all applied to a sandal wood carcass. Some of the exterior shows some discolouring to the Ivory.

The Ivory Tea Chest interior has three vacant compartments showing the sandal wood carcass.

This Vizagapatam Tea Chest has a fully working lock & tasselled key.

The fashion for ivory veneering began in Vizagapatam in the middle of the eighteenth century superceding inlay work as the predominant vogue. Tastes developed and the cabinet-making industry met a demand for decorative items in the neoclassical vogue with the stark contrast of black and white, as seen here. This fashion also influenced the style of engraving that decorated these pieces, which became increasingly restrained, “shedding … exotic decorative elements in … favour of motifs that were in fashion in Europe.

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