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# Container

Silver and parcel gilt container of almost spherical shape in two halves each is made up of a hammered gilded silver hemisphere with an outer hemisphere of pierced silver foliate openwork and hatched leaves. The layers are joined at each apex with a rivet which forms centre of an engraved and gilt rosette.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1651–1799 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1978-1002-804](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1978-1002-804) · Pramāṇa
