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# Container

Silver and silver-gilt container of a flattened egg shape, in two halves, each with a hammered silver hemisphere and an outer hemisphere of pierced silver-gilt foliate openwork in four bands with hatched leaves. The layers are joined at each apex with a rivet which forms the 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.1978-1002-807](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1978-1002-807) · Pramāṇa
