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# Cup

The cup illustrates the skill of craftsmen producing fine objects within the Mughal empire in the 18th century. Not only has the cup been fashioned from a single crystal of clear, colourless quartz, the surfaces have been carved and polished.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1800 CE

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Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.02611-is](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.artefact.vam.02611-is) · Pramāṇa
