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I have bought from Marks a water vessel
which here badly represented.
It is of brass or some sort of bell-metal, & is I should think Persian
though it might perfectly well be gothic. The handle is a sort of lizard or scorpion attacking
the lion. there is a little lid in the lion's head which admits the water, & it
issues from the spout in his mouth. It is really a fine thing.
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