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A Large and Impressive Indian Carved Sandalwood Sarcophagus-shaped Jewellery Casket, C.1920
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A Large and Impressive Indian Carved Sandalwood Sarcophagus-shaped Jewellery Casket, C.1920

1900 - 1920
For Sale by Jeckyll & Co
Description

Profusely carved all-over in high and low relief with flowers and foliage. With brass hinges and working key.

The carved legs contribute to the casket's overall presence, but are detachable if required, two brass screws to each corner.

37cm high x 46cm wide x 31cm deep

By a process of deduction, the most likely wood for the main body of this remarkable casket is sandalwood, and by extension the likely area in which it was made is Mysore. The overall colour and hardness of the timber is typically sandalwood, but there are darker colourings that resemble walnut. However in his seminal work ' Furniture from British India and Ceylon' (published by Timeless Books and The Victoria & Albert Museum. 2001) Amin Jaffer makes no mention of walnut being used for caskets and boxes, although there is a chair made from Kashmir walnut. Sandalwood can have darker coloured stripes, but in boxes and caskets of a more typical size, these are not generally apparent. The unusually large scale of this casket inevitably requires a much larger section of timber to be used and consequently the darker stripes are more apparent.

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Jeckyll & Co has dated this Anglo Indian Jewellery Casket to the 1920s.

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Profusely carved all-over in high and low relief with flowers and foliage. With brass hinges and working key.
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The carved legs contribute to the casket's overall presence, but are detachable if required, two brass screws to each corner.
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fig 1. An intricately carved Anglo-Indian wooden jewellery casket featuring a sarcophagus-shaped lid and raised cabriole legs.
fig 1. A Large and Impressive Indian Carved Sandalwood Sarcophagus-shaped Jewellery Casket, C.1920

37cm high x 46cm wide x 31cm deep

By a process of deduction, the most likely wood for the main body of this remarkable casket is sandalwood, and by extension the likely area in which it was made is Mysore. The overall colour and hardness of the timber is typically sandalwood, but there are darker colourings that resemble walnut. However in his seminal work ' Furniture from British India and Ceylon' (published by Timeless Books and The Victoria & Albert Museum. 2001) Amin Jaffer makes no mention of walnut being used for caskets and boxes, although there is a chair made from Kashmir walnut. Sandalwood can have darker coloured stripes, but in boxes and caskets of a more typical size, these are not generally apparent. The unusually large scale of this casket inevitably requires a much larger section of timber to be used and consequently the darker stripes are more apparent.

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Date of Manufacture

Jeckyll & Co has dated this Anglo Indian Jewellery Casket to the 1920s.

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An intricately carved Anglo-Indian wooden jewellery casket featuring a sarcophagus-shaped lid and raised cabriole legs.
A large and impressive Indian carved sandalwood sarcophagus-shaped jewellery casket, c.1920
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An Anglo-Indian sarcophagus jewellery casket is a decorative wooden storage box made in India during the colonial period, characterized by traditional Indian relief carving combined with European furniture forms such as the tapered, sarcophagus-shaped lid.

These caskets were typically carved from native dense hardwoods, such as walnut or teak, featuring detailed hand-carved foliate patterns, dovetailed corner joinery, and custom iron or brass hinges.

Authentic pieces feature dense, deeply undercut relief carvings of local botanical motifs like chinar leaves, lotus blossoms, or vine tendrils, accompanied by natural wood grain patination and hand-fitted construction details.

An Anglo-Indian casket serves as a striking focal point when displayed on a minimalist sideboard, console table, or dressing vanity, introducing rich texture and architectural shape to contemporary spaces.

Dust the detailed carvings regularly using a soft bristles brush or dry microfibre cloth, avoid placing the object in direct sunlight or high-humidity environments, and nourish the timber periodically with a clear beeswax polish.
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