Chiswick Auctions will conduct what it believes is the first ever auction devoted to Indian and Burmese silver of the Raj period on February 14.
The Stewart Collection was inspired by items inherited from grandparents based in India and Ceylon in the early 1900s and guided by Wynyard Wilkinson’s seminal book Indian Silver 1858- 1947, published in 1999.
The contents (offered across 228 lots) cover all the major silversmithing centres of British India from prolific cities such as Lucknow to the little-known Trichinopoly.