Anglo-Indian Vizagapatam Bombay Mughal Style Footed Box With Bone Overlay

Nice and unusual Indian Mughal style large decorative box, filigree and carved horn.Anglo-Indian footed domed box with exceptional engraved details throughout with filigree and carved veneered bone plaques with arabesque carving.Vizagapatam, late 19th century.History of the Anglo-Indian BoxesBeginning in the early part of the 18th century, Indian artisans made what came to be known as Anglo-Indian boxes for the English residents living in India, who eventually brought or sent them back to England. At the beginning of the 19th century, India began exporting these boxes commercially, although not in any significant numbers until the 1850s. People valued them so highly that manufacturers of tins copied the designs on them in the late 19th and early 20th century.Anglo-Indian boxes fall into four groups: Rosewood or ebony boxes inlaid;sandalwood boxes veneered; sandalwood boxes covered with Sadeli mosaic; and carved boxes often combined with Sadeli mosaic/The first two categories came from