The Great Splendour is a flower pot firework, catalogue code 845: a ground fountain that throws a shower of sparks upward once its fuse is lit. It is a tall cylindrical pot with a red and black wrap printed with firework bursts, a gold-coloured base and a purple paper cap over the top, packed in a matching red carton. It comes from a fireworks maker in Sivakasi, Tamil Nadu. Catalogue code: 845