Description:
Ivory bottle. Fine work; incised and inked? Ivory stopper and spoon. One side depicts two male figures: a high-caste master giving directions to gardeners with watering pot with minute calligraphy above. Description (in black)? And artist’s signature (in red)? The other side has fine calligraphy. Poem to Buddha? And owner’s marks?

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