A BRASS PANDAN BOX IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH CENTRAL INDIA, 19TH CENTURY 10 1/4 in. (26 cm) long Footnotes: Provenance Santa Fe art market, c. 2022 This fish-shaped box with wheels and a hinged lid contains compartments for paan-betel nut, lime paste, and betel leaf. A very similar example is in the National Museum, New Delhi (https://g.co/arts/gtbC74WRFfPiNvvQA). Decorated with fish scales and an anthropomorphic face, it exemplifies auspicious fish symbolism seen in Hindu and Islamic art, as in a 19th‑century Bidri ware fish box from Lucknow or Hyderabad in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (19.135.15a). Lot to be sold without reserve. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ¤ ¤ Unless indicated by the ¤ symbol next to the lot number (or bearing an explicit statement such as 'No Reserve' or 'Without Reserve'), which denotes no reserve, all lots in the catalog are subject to a reserve. The reserve is the minimum hammer price that the seller is willing to accept for a lot. This amount is confidential and does not exceed the low estimate value. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing