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# Container

Gold (93% pure) container of almost spherical shape in two halves, each made up of a gold hemisphere with an outer hemisphere of pierced gold 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 rosette.

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

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1978-1002-808](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.bm.1978-1002-808) · Pramāṇa
