AN INDIAN BRASS BOTTLE AND ROSEWATER SPRINKLER
India, second half 19th century

Comprising a pyriform brass bottle, with a globular body resting on a splayed circular foot, rising to a stepped conical neck with an everted mouth, the exterior engraved with several vertical bands of foliage and floral festoons, bands of stylised palmettes to the foot and shoulders, a drop-like pattern around the neck, 28cm high; and a pyriform rosewater sprinkler, with faceted, screwed-in, tapering neck pierced at the top, 26cm high.