Armored Noblewoman

Hiroyuki Tajima

1974

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Chinese export ware dish with underglaze blue armorial
C-11 A stunning 19th-century Indian silver tea service, comprised of teapot, sugar bowl, and cream jug. The pieces are decorated with swami-style stylized Indian deities set in oval cartouches, with Madras-style leaf and bead borders. (Although the service was made in Calcutta, by Cooke & Kelvey, it is the firm of Peter Orr and the region of Madras that are more usually associated with swami style than Calcutta.) Each piece has four cast lion’s-paw feet, but the stylistic pièce de résistance is the spout: an elephant head—with well-formed tusks and upraised trunk.
Small wide-mouthed vase with ivory glaze with underglaze iron vegetal daubs
End of a small roof tile decorated with a demon mask, reportedly from Quang Nam stoneware