Description
Of a typical rectangular shape with both engraved plane hammered sheets of silver the visible parts are decorated with various birds surrounded by leafy designs and the plane silver parts are covered with fine filigree silver wires decorated with floral and paisley designs.
This very Persian influenced pen-box is most likely been made in the Deccani part of India during the eighteen or the nineteen centuries, either in Hyderabad or Karimnagar, for these centres have had huge cultural and religious ties with the various Muslim dynasties in Iran such as the Safavid, Zand And Qajar dynasties.
Mr. Karimzadeh have had suggested that this pen box could have been made in Kashmir, but we think that it was most likely have been made in one of the main filigree centres in India during the previous centuries, which were Orissa, and the other Indian cities in central and the western coasts of India such as Hyderabad and Karimnagar in central India and Goa at western coast of India.