Silver bowl decorated in the Islamic style with scrolling foliage

An image of Silver bowl. Unknown maker. The small circular bowl stands on a low everted collet foot. The interior is undecorated silver; the exterior is parcel-gilt and neillo and is decorated in the Islamic style with scrolling foliage and flowers. The base has a raised Cyrillic inscription and is dated 1720. Silver, parcel-gilt, no maker's marks or hallmarks, height, to rim, 4.7 cm, approximate, diameter, across rim, 9.5 cm, approximate, weight 140 g.

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Silver bowl. Unknown maker. The small circular bowl stands on a low everted collet foot. The interior is undecorated silver; the exterior is parcel-gilt and neillo and is decorated in the Islamic style with scrolling foliage and flowers. The base has a raised Cyrillic inscription and is dated 1720. Silver, parcel-gilt, no maker's marks or hallmarks, height, to rim, 4.7 cm, approximate, diameter, across rim, 9.5 cm, approximate, weight 140 g.

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Accession Number: M.68-1961
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS 5D
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 683 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 111.05kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2008:11:05 14:54:30

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18th Century bowl Fitz_AA floral flowers foliage foliate Islamic niello parcel-gilt Silver silverware

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