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43-12-11

From: India

Curatorial Section: Asian

Object Number 43-12-11
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Indian
Provenience India
Date Made 18th Century - 1943
Section Asian
Materials Copper | Silver
Technique Embossed | Incised | Chased | Formed | Silver Wash
Iconography Animals | Flowers | Human Figures | Trees | Medallions
Description

Hammered copper with silver wash. Slight ring base; sides expanding slightly to high, convex, offset shoulder; very low neck. Lower part of body and wide band around shoulder vertically fluted; eight star-shaped medallions around upper body, each showing two human figures with a tree between, band of star-shaped motifs on each side of shoulder ridge and just below neck, band of animals amid foliage around neck.

Credit Line Bequest of Mrs. Frances E. (Harry) Markoe, 1943

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