LARGE SILVER VASE in the swami style

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Repoussé silver, the baluster vase on splayed foot rising to a flaring mouth, the rounded lid topped by the figure of a female dancer, the vase decorated with several registers, each with rows of deities within medallions or under arches, representing gods and goddesses riding their vehicles, such as Durga, Saraswati, Shiva, avatars of Vishnu, Krishna quelling Kaliya and Bakasura, and others, floral garlands interspersed between the registers, a cobra meandering around the foot 

Height: 46 cm
Weight: 1751 gm 

Provenance
Private French Collection, until 2025
 

Literature
For a discussion on south Indian silver, see Wynyard R. T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858-1947, Silver from the Indian Subcontinent and Burma during Ninety Years of British Rule, London, 1999, pp.144-164. 

£14,000