Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - Bengali Polymath - two ite...

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£3,000

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - Bengali Polymath - two items owned and used by Tagore, comprising a cast iron pestle and mortar (for Betel leaves), and a larger bronze charger with flared edges. Charger measures approx; 27cm diameter

Provenance; these utensils were once owned by Satish Chandra Roy - Indian politician and freedom fighter. Several documented meetings between Tagore and Satish Chandra Roy are known, and these utensils were given during a meeting in Bolpur.. A note of provenance is supplied by the vendor (a relative of Satish Chandra Roy), and the vendor is happy to share their contact information with the winning bidder should any further provenance be required. The exact contents of the provenance letter will be supplied to the winning bidder only.

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore FRAS (1861 – 1941) was a Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful" poetry of Gitanjali, he became in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He was a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society. Referred to as "the Bard of Bengal", Tagore was known by sobriquets: Gurudeb, Kobiguru, Biswokobi.