Karimnagar - Some 19th Century Silver Filigree Objects

 

Karimnagar and Some 19th Century Silver Filigree Objects.

Essay from the Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge - Vol 4 October 2005.

This essay suggests that Mr Kadarla Ramayya introduced the manufacture of filigree at Karamnagar about 160 years ago.

The first reference I can find to Kadarla Ramayya and filigree at Karimnager is in 1972 and repeats the assertions in this essay - so perhaps not entirely to be trusted. 

https://nopr.niscpr.res.in/bitstream/123456789/8525/1/IJTK%204(4)%20386-391.pdf

The two objects here are in the Salar Jung Museum in Hyderabad, India.

They are probably 19th Century but it is possible they could be earlier and that they did not originate in Karimnagar but came from Cuttack, Orissa, the workmanship appears very close to known objects from Karimnager.

Currently no size available.

Images from 

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=2704128413135849&set=a.1556996821182353

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Currently no sizes available and it is therefore it is not immediately obvious whether these pieces are closely related, but it is possible that they were part of a two piece set.

Images here from 

https://salarjungmuseum.in/Indian-Silver.html

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The Victoria and Albert Museum Set of Filigree Caskets and Tray.

Given to the South Kensington Museums by Prince Albert in 1857.

Madras Exhibition 1857; Indian Museum, transferred to SKM 1879. Indian Museum slip book number 10,519: 'Tray, Hyderabad'.

Height: 90mm, Length: 230mm, Width: 185mm, Tray only height: 50mm

Height: 60mm (For large box in centre) Width: 117mm (For large box in centre) Depth: 70mm (For large box in centre)

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O111687/spice-tray-unknown/

The feet on the tray are very similar to those on the two objects illustrated here

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/03/an-indian-silver-filigree-candle-holder.html

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For more examples of small caskets from Karimnagar see my post-

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/06/three-silver-filigree-boxes-karimnagar.html

For my essay on Gulab pash (rosewater sprinklers) from Cuttack and Karimnagar see -

https://antiqueeuropeanfiligree.blogspot.com/2023/09/silver-filigree-rosewater-sprinklers.html

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