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Water Vessel (cambu) with Bird-and-Leaf Motif

Hindu, 1800-1899

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Water Vessel (cambu) with Bird-and-Leaf Motif

Hindu, 1800-1899

Physical Qualities Metal alloy, 5 in. (12.7 cm.) H
Credit Line Lockwood de Forest Collection
Object Number 1922.2.79
birds in scrolling and leaf motifs
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1922; American Art Galleries, New York; Lockwood de Forest purchased in India, probably 1914
Frances Klapthor, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "90 Years of Asian Accessions: 1920-1940," (Lockwood de Forest, Julius Levy, Francis Burns Harvey, Mary Frick Jacobs, William H. Whitridge), July 2004-January 2005.
Catalogue of the Rare and Valuable Examples of East Indian Persian and Syro-Damascan Art and Curios forming the private collection of the widely known artist and connoisseur Lockwood De Forest, Esq. of New York City, NY: American Art Association, 1922, no. 337.

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