A Rare Silver Wine Goblet, Nuristan, Afghanistan, 19th Century the wide bowl with stylised repousse leaf design
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A RARE SILVER WINE GOBLET, NURISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, 19TH CENTURY the wide bowl with stylised repousse leaf design, the rim with embossed geometric and floral decoration, on flared foot, 21cm high; 22.5cm diam. For a very closely related example of this unusual type in the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, see inv. no. 1980.8.3. In the entry for their goblet on the museum website, it is noted that these very rare silver vessels were produced as dowry pieces in what was then known as Kafiristan, before the forced conversion of the population to Islam. See Condition Report: Various dents throughout, old repairs to worn and cracked areas around rim.
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