A repoussé silver bonbonniere of architectural form by Oomersi Mawji
Baroda, early 20th Centuryof octagonal form on a stepped foot, the hinged lid of domed form with piriform finial surmounted by a knop, chased and embossed, the sides decorated with floral sprays and scrolling vine within cusped arches on a finely stippled ground, alternating sides with a doorway and steps below, a pilaster on each corner, the gadrooned lid surmounted by a flowerhead, with balustrade and cantilever below, each corner with a serpentine bracket, the base stamped "Oomarsee Baroda", on octagonal wooden base
18 cm. high, 611 g. (excluding base)注脚Provenance
Private UK collection.

A related biscuit box dated to 1890 and a sketch which closely resembles the present lot are published in Vidya Dehejia et al., Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj, 2008, p. 133, no. 42. The marks "Oomarsee Baroda" also appear on a salver in the British Museum dated to the early 20th Century (accession no. 2011,3014.82) and were probably used by Oomersi Mawji's son working for the Gaekwar in Baroda in the early 20th Century.