Note: This parrot, which at first appears to be a purely decorative enamelled bird is actually a flask (chuski). It can be filled through the head which opens by turning the crest and drunk from the lotus bulb which it holds in its beak by removing the stopper that is attached by a seed-pearl chain. The drink could be either wine or liquid opium or bhang. Such a chuski may be placed discreetly amongst other purely ornamental enamelled birds as were fashionable at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, and it could be intermittently sipped from as only the chain would indicate that this bird was in fact a bottle.