- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Gourd-shaped brass vessel inlaid with copper to form geometric designs. [ZM 25/2/2005]
- Geographical reference
- Uttar Pradesh Varanasi [Benares] Ganges & Yamuna Rivers
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1908
- Date collected
- By 1908
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1908
- Materials and processes
- Material Brass Metal, Material Copper Metal, Process Inlaid
- Dimensions
- Diameter: max 150 mm, Height: max 150 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1908.48.9
- Research and responses
Lota is a small usually spherical water vessel of brass or copper. [Encyclopædia Britannica Online]. [CF 17/12/99]
Search terms: Vessel, Food and Drink, Food Accessory
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