A Bareilly painted wood chest Eastern India, 19th Century of rectangular form with hinged lid, the stand of foliate form, decorated in gold-colour on a black ground to each side with panels containing floral interlace, the borders with undulating floral vines, the stand with floral and foliate motifs the chest 61.5 x 45.5 x 46.3 cm.(2) Footnotes: Traditionally thought to have been from Canton these chests are now known to have been exported from Bareilly, Eastern India. An example was shown at the Great Exhibition in 1851, see A. Jaffer, Furniture from British India and Ceylon, 2001, pages 268-269, plate 95. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com