A good late 19th century Indian silver claret jug Madras, circa 1900, possibly by P. Orr and Sons, after a design P. Orr and Sons Baluster form with a waisted neck, the curved handle formed as a cobra, head raised above the hinged cover, the cover with domed centred surmounted with a gilt figure of a snake charmer, playing a stylised flute. The body with a central band depicting a hunt scene, with two huntsmen on horseback, with hounds, with a pack of tigers and a lion, in a landscape interspersed with trees, birds in the skyline, all between two narrow bands of leaf motifs, the whole with a matted surface on a skirted base, height 26cm, weight 19.2oz, weight 600gms. Footnotes: From A Private collection of Indian and Burmese Colonial Silver Literature: A jug of the same form dated 1880 by Peter Orr and Sons is illustrated Indian Silver 1858-1947: Decorative Silver from the Indian Sub-Continent and Burma Made by Local Craftsmen in Western Forms. London, 1999, Wynyard R T Wilkinson, p. 156, fig. 249. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing