A Pair of Silver Rosewater Sprinklers, Lucknow, India, Circa 1860

each made of two component parts with a body of baluster form on a shallow splayed foot with a slender tapering neck with openwork globular moulding surmounted by a pierced domed sprinkler, the foot and neck chiselled and chased with floral and vegetal scrolls, the body with a central openwork medallion encircled by a band of fleshy leaves bordered by bulbous ridging

Both in good condition, minor areas of patination and surface abrasions, as viewed
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These rosewater sprinklers relate to a group of silver wares produced in Lucknow during the nineteenth century. Similar examples are illustrated in Wynyard R.T. Wilkinson, Indian Silver 1858-1947, London 1999, p.133-134, nos. 222-226). The 'coriander flower pattern' is seen on the openwork moulding on the neck and decorating the domed sprinkler. The floral scrolls used on the faceted section of the neck are also found on the body of a parcel gilt ewer from Lucknow c.1860 (ibid. p.133, no.222)