An Enamelled Silver-gilt Rosewater Sprinkler, Lucknow, India, 19th Century

of baluster form with splayed foot, the bulbous fluted body with green enamel petalled shoulder rising to a globular moulding below a slender tapering neck terminating in a stylised floral finial, decorated with blue and green enamels of scrolling vegetation and flowers with symmetrical borders

In overall good condition, neck slighly bent, very minor cracks on the globular moulding below the neck and slight surface abrasion, as viewed.
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