A Deccani bronze flask, India, 16th-17th century

the body of globular form raised on a broad splayed foot, the stepped shoulder below a rounded flange, the narrow neck everting at the rim, the chased decoration of pairs of vertical lines and horizontal registers of interlocking triangular forms and pointed lappets

surface patination, overall good condition, as viewed
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This relatively squat form is associated with the Deccan and Southern India. A similarly proportioned vessel said to have come from Karnataka is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (Zebrowski 1997, p.189, no.282).