Decorative vase with lid with sitting monkey on top

India / South Asia Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.251.1-3
Type: vase; ceramics
Date of production:
end of 19th c.
Colonial period
Place of production:
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: fired; glazed; wheel-trown
Dimensions: height: 34 cm
width: 21 cm
Decorative vase in three pieces. The body is a slightly flattened spherical vase, narrow rim at the top, wide mouth opening. Yellow, green, red-brown ornaments on a dark brown background, tendril and flower patterns: among them, in the form of four round medallions, a figure of a seated man, in the floral ornaments between the medallions, two hamsas (Indian swans). The interior is ocher in color. On the top of the lid, a figure of a monkey is sitting.
Composition of the Bombay School of Applied Arts, based on an old model.