23 C A M E L WA L L B R A C K E T India (Mughal), 17th century
This bracket would probably have been used as a turban hook, as can be seen in various Malwa paintings of the period. This small though useful object offers an insight into the practicalities of life in seventeenth century India, but at the same time functions as a charming piece of ornamental sculpture. The strength and simplicity of form have a striking modernity.
Height: 12.2 cm Width: 29.4 cm Depth: 1.5 cm
A tempered steel wall bracket with the finial in the form of a camel’s head. The camel’s head faces forward and tilts slightly up with a smooth neck, which curves down to form a sinuous U-shape and then up into the horizontal spike tapering to a sharp point which would have secured it to the wall. The ears are alert and stand proud from the head of the camel.
Wall brackets, hooks and other hanging pegs in decorative and stylised animal forms are still visual on site in some Rajput forts and palaces, for example the
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