Title: Flask (Surahi)
Date: 18th century
Location: Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
Materials: gold, partly enamelled and set with diamonds in gold kundan
Dimensions: height 24cm
Accession Number: JLY 1803
Other Notes:
The neck, which is in two sections and screws into the globular body, is set with foiled diamonds, mostly table-cut, on a ground of green translucent enamel. In contrast to its rich enamelling and jewelled encrustation, the body is undecorated, most probably because it was made to be plunged into ice or snow to cool the contents.
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