A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c16.s5.9

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A second object of the same class, but probably slightly later in date, and thoroughly Indian in subject and style, may be designated the Tānk patera, having been found in August, 1892, near Buddhaghara, about four miles west of Tānk, the ancient capital of the Dera Ismail Khān District, N.W. Frontier Province. Mr. Longworth Dames, I.C.S., acquired it and presented it to the British Museum in 1897 (Pl. LXXVII, Fig. A). The material is silver, apparently alloyed with copper; the diameter is 9⅞ inches, and the device is *repoussé*. The wide margin is decorated with radiating wavy flutes, such as are often seen on modern English crockery.