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This charming box stored the spices used for making pan, a mildly narcotic digestive whose main ingredients are betel nut and powdered lime. The form, of a sleeping duck, may be inspired by Chinese porcelains of this subject in circulation in eighteenth-century India.
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Title: Pan Box in the Shape of a Duck
Date: ca. 1700
Culture: India (Deccan)
Medium: Bidri (zinc alloy with inlay of brass and silver)
Dimensions: H. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm); L. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm); D. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm)
Classification: Metalwork
Credit Line: Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 1997
Object Number: 1997.132a–c
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