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# Tray

This small, delicately fashioned dish was made within the Mughal empire, probably in the late 17th or early 18th century. It is fashioned to translucent thinness from a single piece of nephrite jade, which is a hard and durable material that requires patience and skill to work.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1695–1704 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.02599-is](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.02599-is) · Pramāṇa
