Fish-Shaped Box

Unknown

19th century · Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with silver and brass (bidri ware) · Islamic Art

Although the technique of inlaying metal known as bidri was invented in the Deccan in the seventeenth century, and Hyderabad remained a center for this type of metalwork into the 1800s, Lucknow, in northeastern India, also became an important center for production of bidri ware in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Artist

Unknown

Date

19th century

Medium

Zinc alloy; cast, engraved, inlaid with silver and brass (bidri ware)

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert W. and Lockwood De Forest, 1919