

Mystery of Chickpet
Mystery of Chickpet
SILVER DOOR
Lot Closed
ASN0005 Auction Type: Live Floor
Dimension: 174 x 92 cms.
R 8,00,000 - R 12,00,000
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Details
Details
A very fine Silver covered wooden door with elaborate silver repousse with viewing grill, The front of the door is flanked by two intricately carved and heavily embossed Goddess Lakshmi standing on a floating Lotus with four hands holding Lotus flowers at the bottom of the viewing grills, and at top a pair of Celestial Devdasis holding Flower Garlands on either side of the viewing grill which has a pair of Peacock. The entire frame of the door is engraved and chased with running creeper and flowers. The centre of the door panel has the inscription written in Hindi as “ Shri Adinath Jain Temple Chickpet Bangalore, Samwat 2027 silver weight kilo 14.040 ” The reverse of the door is profusely engraved and at the bottom of the viewing grill are two similar patterns of shield flanked by profuse foliage and flowers.