Friday, March 12, 2010

Silver Kettle and Zaharmor (Serpentine)

Guest post by Man Mohan Munshi ji. 
The following exquisite items have been with his family collection since 1880s.

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 A silver kettle of old Kashmiri workmanship with a
serpentine(Zaharmor) cup from Central Asia
 Both article are more than a century old.

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Update from Man Mohan ji:
Some time back a friend from Face book had suggested that the ZAHARMOR  cup from my collection shown along with the silver kettle  was of made of ONYX. The mini tumbler  seen here is of Onyx- which is a calcareous rock of sedimentary origin  often depicting bedding as seen in the said tumbler while as Zaharmohar is a recrystallized rock of  of altered pyroxenes.
Onyx tumbler to the left and Zaharmor to the right
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