DepartmentAsia

Plate

NamePlate

Artist Artist not recorded

Dateca 1950

Place madeTAMIL NADU, INDIA, SOUTH ASIA, ASIA

Mediummetal

Dimensions7/16 × 6 11/16 in. (1.1 × 17 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Miss Hester Gassett, A.1989.47.7

Object numberA.1989.47.7

DescriptionBrass with engraved peacock design and hammered, relief design of bird, grape-cluster-like flower, and animal repeated around rim in silver alloy. Peacock stands on snake, has wings pointed down and feathers outspread; two concentric circles of silver alloy dots surround them.