Indian Figurative Casting Mold Depicting Deity

Little rectangular plaque packs a seated figure and flower scrolls into its center.

This silver figurative casting mold depicting a deity is from India, and dates to the late 19th or early 20th century. Molds and stamps for devotional images were used by metalworkers and goldsmiths, who could reproduce a figure many times from one carved original. Curved rectangle with a round medallion at the center holding a tiny seated figure. Dense flowers and leaves fill the surrounding relief, and a band of beading edges the lower border. The surface is dark with pale, rubbed high points. It is 2 inches wide, 1.5 deep and 0.5 high.

A lot of decoration in a very small space.