Indian 19th Century Mughal Tinned Copper Box with Lid

Beautiful handcrafted decorative round tinned copper Mughal Indian box with lid, latch and handle. Antique South Asian Mughal Round Tinned Copper Box with L...

Large 19th century tinned copper Indo Persian Mughal copper bowl vessel. Great patina on handcrafted and embossed metal tin copper bowl with floral geo...

Mughal Islamic Indo Persian red copper footed bowl, of compressed hemispherical shape, resting on a splayed conical foot, with slightly everted rim,...

Beautiful decorative tinned copper hand-hammered Indo-Persian box with lid. Probably used as a tea caddy or tobacco storage. Nice Middle Eastern Arabian Moorish style hand chiseled copper...

19th Century Indian Copper Bowl, having embossed decoration all over and standing on a shallow foot base.

19th century Middle Eastern Arabian tinned copper coffee pot. A bird on top of the handle. Embossed, hand-hammered and chased tinned copper with figures and wild animal designs riveted finish on handle. Missing lid, probably used to make coffee, tea or boil water. Middle Eastern copper collectible...

Antique 19th century middle Eastern tinned copper ewer. Nice decorative old rustic hand-hammered ewer in the Mameluke style. Moorish middle e...

19th century Middle Eastern Arabian tinned copper coffee pot. A bird on top of the handle. Hand-hammered and chased copper with figures and animal ...

Rajasthani Mughal Decorative Copper Lidded Betel Spice Pandan Caddy Box. Handcrafted decorative North India round metal Asian copper Mughal Raj, Indian lidded , spice, pandan betel box with latch and a top handle. Of dome form with lotus-shaped finial, with spiralling bosse designs, Delicately and intricately hand-chased and hammered with geometric Anglo-Indian designs. Consuming betel leaves with several ingredients such as wet lime paste, katechu, areca nut, cloves and even tobacco leaves has been popular in India from the fourth century AD. Dimensions: Height: 9 in (22.86 cm)Diameter: 7 in (17.78 cm) The box was probably used to store the betel leaf used in the preparation of paan. Lime paste is mixed with grated areca nut and flavourings and the resulting mixture is rolled in the betel leaf to form a small parcel which can then be chewed. As well as being an integral part of Indian hospitality paan is believed to possess medicinal properties and was also taken as an aphrodisiac. The present box, which was elaborately designed for this purpose, would have been taken out ceremoniously on special occasions. Exquisite conversation museum quality piece with a very nice antique patina. Fine intricate artwork with conical form lid with Moorish pierced designs. Islamic Mughal Indo Persian...

19th century Middle Eastern Arabian tinned copper ewer with lid. Hand-hammered and chased copper with geometric design and Arabic calligraphy writing rivet...