Container for ashes and embers
A container used to store ashes and embers, which were often mixed into the freshly prepared opium paste. The elongated octagonal container stands on two pedestals and has a lid decorated with an incised net ornament. The sides are decorated with incised and coloured stylised images. One of the longer sides features a human figure in a landscape; on the other a landscape scene. The shorter sides are decorated with a butterfly and a rooster, while the remaining four sides of the octagon are decorated with bat images. (HM)
Material description: brass
Manufacturing technique: metalworking techniques
Dimensions: length: 15.5 cm, depth: 5.5 cm, height: 5.3 cm
No. of parts: 1
Current owner: Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Date of the last acquisition: 1963
Previous owners and periods of ownership: Ivan Skušek, Jr. and Tsuneko Kondō Kawase - Marija Skušek, National Museum of Slovenia, Slovene Ethnographic Museum
Object condition, handling and damage: well preserved
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