Old Blue Multan: very old, a city on the Indus River in the south-west of the Punjab, always a major post for trade between east and west. In the late 1400s a large caravanserai was built in Baku, Azerbaijan, called “The Multani”, specifically for overland traders from that city. Multan is 2200 odd k’s from Baku, by camel.
Famous for its blue tile work, famous for its enamel work, always in shades of blue.
Multan early fell to Islam. At Partition, however, some 1200 years after Islam’s advent, there existed embedded into the social fabric of what is now Pakistan, many chunks of Hindu culture, one of which consisted of guilds of artisans plying the ancient trades of their forbears, and the enamellers of Multan, all Hindu guild members, at that time departed en masse east, into majority Hindu territory.
That was the end of Multan Silver Enamel work. That dates the above piece as pre-1947.