Bidri Hookah Base Bidar, India 19th century height: 25 cm This particularly fine example of a bidri vase or hookah base is decorated with alternating swirling bands of poppy or daisy flowers and foliage, and bands of herring-bone like motif, all rendered in silver. Bidriware is believed to have originated in the city of Bidar … Read more
Bidri Ewer (Aftaba) India 18th century height: 29cm, weight: 1,830g This north Indian ewer is covered with silver-inlaid Bidri work. It has a wonderful tear-drop body with tapering sides. It stands on a tiered, flared foot of six sides. The handle is curved and the spout has a gentle ‘S’ shape. The spout seems to … Read more
This good-sized, elegantly-shaped, heavy basin has a large, hemispherical bowl; a ring foot; a wide rim; and a circular, pierced grill that sits over the well of the basin. The grill sits snugly and has a central, bud-like finial pull. Such a basin would have been used to catch falling water as guests rinsed their … Read more
This fine, hemispherical bowl with a flared ring foot is decorated with silver inlay and a darkened ground known as the Bidri technique. The sides are decorated with carnation flower scrolls within scrolling borders. The lower register has an additional lotus petal border. The foot is decorated with a row of silver leaf-like dashes, and … Read more
PROBABLY BIDAR, DECCAN, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
This circular tray is decorated in a form of Bidri work known as tehnishan work. It has a central lotus flower roundel around which there is a border of eleven stylised poppy flowers. The outer rim is decorated with floral scrollwork. A small circular tray of almost identical proportions and design that is attributed to … Read more
Rare Silver-Inlaid Bidri Bowl with Fish Bidar, Deccan India late 18th century diameter: 14.2cm, height: 6cm, weight: 674g This very pleasing and rare type of bidri bowl features a conventional exterior of repeated stylised poppy motifs in a band of cartouches but a highly unusual interior of fishes swimming about a central floral medallion. Zebrowski … Read more
This monumental, heavy basin has a large, hemispherical bowl; a flared ring foot; a wide rim; and a circular, pierced grill that sits over the well of the basin. The grill sits snugly and has a central, bud-like finial pull. Such a basin would have been used to catch falling water as guests rinsed their … Read more
This tall, very decorative flask has been decorated using the bidri technique – although rather than the design and motifs being inlaid in silver, the reverse is true, whereby the pattern has been cut out of silver sheet and then what is left has been inlaid into the vessel, so that the pattern in apparent … Read more
Bidri Tray with Petals
20 monochrome borders from India in one colored (with or without background, depending on the geometry) and one b&w (transparent) version. The designs are
Bidri Flask & Lid Hyderabad, India late 18th century height: 31cm, weight: 1,908g This form of this well-proportioned flask and stopper base is based on the northern Indian Islamic water flask (surai or surahi). It is finely decorated in silver with dense flowerheads and foliage within various borders. The form of decoration suggests a Hyderabad … Read more
Bidri Cosmetics Container Bidar, India late 18th century height: 8 cm; diameter: 7.6 cm This container is finely worked with grapes, vine and leaf designs, with a central poppy/lotus motif on the lid and borders of scrolling vines and flowers elsewhere, all in silver bidri work. A hookah base worked with similar design … Read more
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Bidri is an art of inlaying silver or gold on black metal. Bidri ware is well known handicraft of Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh. ‘Bidri craft’ is named after the place Bidar in Karnataka, from where it has originated. The unique artwork is originally gifted by Persian artists. Skilled Bidri artisans from Persia came to Bidar and trained Bidri artisans to create masterpieces for
Large Bell-shaped Silver-Inlaid Bidri Hookah Base Bidar, Deccan, India 19th century height: 20.2cm, diameter of base: 24.1cm, weight: 3.424kg This relatively large hookah base of bell form is decorated in silver (minor losses) with the poppy motif often encountered in bidriware from Bidar. The poppies sprout from stylised vases that rest on trays within oval … Read more
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Bidri Huqqa (Water Pipe) Base with Lotuses Emerging from a Pond Object Name: Water pipe base Date: mid-17th century Geography: India, Bidar Culture: Islamic Medium: Zinc alloy inlaid with brass and silver Dimensions: H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm) Classification: Metal Credit Line: Private Collection, London
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