Vase with lid and handles

India / South Asia Collection

Accession Nr.: 53.252.1-2
Type: vase; vessel; ceramics
Date of production:
end of 19th c.
Colonial period
Place of production:
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: fired; glazed
Dimensions: height: 27.6 cm
width: 10.5 cm
Vase with two handles and lid. Body tapering upwards, narrow, straight neck. Green decoration on a dark brown background with tendrils, leaves, flowers and stylized patterns. On either side of the body, front and back, in a horseshoe-shaped medallion: in one, a man in a turban sitting under a palm tree, holding a book or a mirror, in front of him a vessel of water. On the other side, a bird is standing between two small palms. Blurred inscription with green glaze on the soles, probably in Gujarati or Marathi script.
Composition of the Bombay School of Applied Arts, based on an old model.