This rosewater sprinkler (qumqum) features a cylindrical body with a domed shoulder, a constriction and a broad rounded collar leading to a relatively large splayed faceted neck terminating with a closed perforated mouth, incised with an endless knot. Below the rim a band of incised horizontal lines. On the body, the main area is embossed with small round mdallions and further engraved with endless knots roundels. The bottom repeated the band of horizontal lines found below the rim.

This water sprinkler was probably made of high tin bronze- an alloy of copper and about 20 per cent tin. This alloy was known in early Islamic times as asfidroy, literally 'white copper' and was used for bowls, stem bowls, dishes, ewers and candlesticks. amongst the particular properties of high tin bronze is that it can be red-hot forged, like iron, and if quenched, becomes reasonably malleable when cold. If permitted to cool slowly than hammered, it shatters. Three centres of quarternary bronze manufacture are recorded in Islamic texts of the 10th-11th centuries: Rabinjian near Bukhara, Hamadan in western Persia and Sistan province in eastern Persia. Transoxiana, i.e. Eastern Persia and Afghanistan, provided the inspiration for the Hamadan industry as well and kept on producing high-tin copper alloy vessels well into the 13th century, although with less originality than before.