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Lot 576
An Indian Thewa gold, glass and silver gilt oval Snuff Box, Pratapgargh, Rajasthan, The hinged cover decorated with hunters on elephant-back engaged with a ferocious tiger, in a forest with palms, flowering lotus and fleeing antelope on a green ground, sides embossed with beaded and foliate borders, 2 ½ in wide.Footnote: Old Pratapgarh town, now a district of Udaipur, was home to this particular artisanal jewellery craft of applying gold to foiled back enamel known a Thewa-work. Items for the European market, like snuff boxes, bracelets, caskets etc were popular souvenirs in the 19th century. Cf. Oppi Untracht, "Traditional Jewellery of India", London, 1997, p.301 for an illustration of a similar Thewa-work.
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