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High tin bronze bowls containing typically 23% tin and exhibiting a quenched martensitic structure are known from ancient India and Thailand, mediaeval Islam and Korea, (and probably elsewhere), and were still being made very recently in South India. There is a fairly extensive bibliography. The decoration you describe appears to correspond with that seen in examples published by A. S. Melikian Chirvani, 'The white bronzes of early Islamic Iran', Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1974, 9, 123-51. Nigel Seeley. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%