A Mughal ivory powder horn, India, 17th-18th century. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's

composed of two joined sections of tusk, worked in relief and in the round with hunting quadrupeds and birds, each side with gazelle heads, one emerging from the mouth of a tiger, the others carved in mirror-form, a spring-action levered steel stopper attached to top - 28.5cm. 

Note: This powder horn forms part of a group of imaginatively and ornately-decorated carved flasks produced in Mughal India. 

Sotheby's. Arts of the Islamic World, Londres, 22 avr. 2015