Four silver-inlaid bidriware vessels, probably Bidar, India, 19th century

comprising three bottles-vases and a pot, each decorated with silver-inlay, varying designs including stylised cloves, leafy bands, foliate stems with birds and floral compositions

Each in generally good condition, some minor tarnishing to silver-inlay (most of silver-inlay still remaining on all examples), three of the vessels with some encrustations on underside of foot, the bot with some minor nicks to rim and foot and small sections of silver missing, as viewed.
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