Besamin – scent vessel

Unknown manufacturer

19. century

Spices in the vessel were used and scented for various rituals. Such vessels were made in different shapes and materials, usually richly decorated. From a wider base a thinner leg is formed, passing over in typical onion-shaped closed middle part; this consists of lower and upper part, the last narrowing to the top and closing with stylized decorative banner.

Information on digitization

Materials and techniques: Silver
Name of site: Murska Sobota
Other settlement names: Muraszombat
Name of institution or personage holding object; identification number of object: Pomurski muzej Murska Sobota, UZ - 1781.
Written sources: Katalog stalne razstave, 1997. Murska Sobota: Pokrajinski muzej.
Web page: www.pomurski-muzej.si
File name: PMMS_075_A_0001
Resolution: 300 dpi
Restrictions on use: Brez omejitev
Date of documentation: 2019-04-25
Person documenting: Tadeja Andrejek

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