Bidspirit auction | A KHOLMOGORY SCHOOL CARVED BONE

A KHOLMOGORY SCHOOL CARVED BONE BOX WITH MUGHAL INFLUENCE, 18TH CENTURY - An important carved bone box, pierced, engraved and colored with square shaped mica sheets, the lid with sloping shoulders. The whole is richly carved with openwork plaques, which are heavily- inspired by Mughal decoration. The decorative plaques represent love, birds, dogs, squirrels and hunters, along with foliate-silhouetted rocks. The bottom part with interlaced quatrefoils; fleurs-de-lys, branches, foliage. Kholmogory School. Arkhangelsk region. Height: 28.2 cm. Length: 38 cm.