AN IMPRESSIVE GROUP OF ELEVEN MUGHAL MOULD-BLOWN GLASS ROSEWATER SPRINKLERS WITH SILVER MOUNTS
Gujarat, North-Western India, 18th century

AN IMPRESSIVE GROUP OF ELEVEN MUGHAL MOULD-BLOWN GLASS ROSEWATER SPRINKLERS WITH SILVER MOUNTS
Gujarat, North-Western India, 18th century

Comprising four cobalt blue glass bottles, three dark green ones, three clear ones, and an amber yellow glass bottle, each of typical bulbous pyriform shape, most bodies gadrooned with irradiating vertical lines, resting on a short splayed circular foot, rising to a tapering cylindrical neck surmounted by Mughal silver mounts including two parcel-gilt, three with stylised makara heads encrusted with untested rubies and turquoise cabouchon beads, two with elephant heads, and the others chased in relief and engraved with traditional floral motifs with rosette roundels and fleshy palmettes, the tallest 30.2cm and the shortest 20.5cm including the mounts.

Dimensions: the tallest 30.2cm and the shortest 20.5cm including the mounts