An alabaster footed-bowl with gold decoration in the Mughal style, 20th century

of deep rounded form on a short splayed foot, the applied gold decoration with red and green details and black outlines, comprising a web of stylised flowerheads between two roundels containing floral stems

It is interesting to compare this bowl with an example in glass in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, inv. no. 2000.490a,b. Both feature a fusion of European and Indian elements, although the Metropolitan example is composed of an opalescent white glass body which is very rare, and said to imitate jade, a favoured stone of the Mughals (see Carboni and Whitehouse 2002, pp.276-7). This bowl may in turn, be another imitation of that style.