18th century box catalogued as possibly Goa – £6000 at Chiswick Auctions.
Ivory frames to this 18th century wooden box, left, with tortoiseshell panels, did nothing to hold back bidding on currently hugely popular Indo-Portuguese material.
Offered at Chiswick Auctions (25% buyer’s premium) on July 11, the 61/2 x 11in (17 x 28cm) box – catalogued as possibly Goa – was decorated to the interior of the lid with a lacquered lithographed panel of a mother and children in a countryside scene.