Brass surma container with lid on chain
- Made:
- 1801-1910
Brass surma container with lid on chain, cigar-shaped with engraved design, containing ebony applicator decorated with silver-mounted gems, from Middle East, 1801-1910
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A155138
- Materials:
- brass, applicator, ebony, applicator, silver and applicator, gems
- type:
- container
- credit:
- Mahmoud Hussain