An Indian Bombay-Presidency blackwood carved table
Mumbai, circa 1870
The top carved around the edge with a band of animals, buildings, trees and rocks, the scalloped apron carved and pierced in foliate motif, the top supported by a carved end pierced column surrounded by four crane-like birds each holding a snake in its beak and resting on a circular base with four feet in the form of dragons, on four casters.
H. 81.5 x Diam. 139 cm
This table is an extremely elaborate example of what carpenters were capable of making in Bombay in the second half of the nineteenth century.
The top carved around the edge with a band of animals, buildings, trees and rocks, the scalloped apron carved and pierced in foliate motif, the top supported by a carved end pierced column surrounded by four crane-like birds each holding a snake in its beak and resting on a circular base with four feet in the form of dragons, on four casters.
H. 81.5 x Diam. 139 cm
This table is an extremely elaborate example of what carpenters were capable of making in Bombay in the second half of the nineteenth century.
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