Project “Creation and presentation of digitally accessible cultural heritage of Shumen Municipality”

Copper Bath Bowl

Detailed information

Name of the object

Copper bath bowl

Inventory №

6243

Location

Shumen Regional Museum

Material from which the item is made

Metal – gold, silver, copper, iron, bronze

Dimensions and weight

Diameters 9 and 14 cm, height 5,5

Method of acquisition and location

Cultural period of creation

Ethnography

Item description

Tinned. Hemispherical shape, round bottom and opening with wide protruding edge. Richly decorated outside and inside. Above the bottom three rows of carved checkered hexagons, and above them frieze of floral ornament on the inner side, with frieze below the opening and engraved decoration all over the bottom. Inscription in Arabic in the middle
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