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The exterior is decorated in high-relief repoussé with a continuous band of courtly figures in traditional \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eQajar dress, engaged in processional and ritual activity — including offerings made before a lit shrine and figures bearing yoked yokes\/vessels — set within dense scrolling floral borders. The scenes likely illustrate episodes from the Jataka tales, the popular Buddhist narratives of the Buddha's former lives, a common decorative program on \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eQajar ceremonial silver of this period. The interior bowl is left plain and polished. 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