IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 167928 accession number: O.3 & A-1978 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: High zinc alloy, cast, and inlaid with silver. Globular long-necked bottle standing on a footring, with a circular stopper with a flange which fits inside the neck, and a conical finial. The body and neck are decorated with bands of inlaid silver floral diaper, and different scrolling flowers and foliage, and paire leaves, separated by narrow bands of pointed leaves or plain silver. The top of the stopper and the finial are decorated with bands of pointed leaves. title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably acquired in India LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Sir Leonard Costello, CBE STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167928 TECHNIQUES ---------- high zinc allow, cast, and inlaid with silver casting CATEGORIES ------ category: metalwork DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1899 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1899 culture: 19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 15 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.4 CITATIONS -------- Bidri Ware, Inlaid Metalwork from India Indian art at Delhi, 1903 : being the official catalogue of the Delhi exhibition, 1902-1903 ---