A MISCELLANEOUS GROUP OF BRASS MINIATURE VESSELS AND COSMETIC TOOLS
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE GERMAN COLLECTION
India, late 19th - 20th century

Comprising three brass medical mortars, two with the original pestles, the largest 7cm high and 7.5cm diam.; five vel pattiya brass powder or paste containers, designed as woven baskets, the largest 8cm long; a saunf / sonph lidded box, 5.5cm high and 7cm diam.; three lidded and portable rounded lime-paste (chunam) containers, the largest 5cm diam.; a tubular brass kohl container with floral lid, 10cm high; three miniature lotas and tubular water container, the largest 7cm high; and a miniature decorative printing block, 4cm x 3cm.