Painted two piece lime bottle with the surface broken up in to series of hoops alternately plain or infilled. Those that are infilled feature a number of concentric circle elements in rows as a well as barbed lines. The lid of the box has been cut in to four tabs and the painted decoration follows this scalloped edge around the circumference. Containing a metal spatula and white lime.
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