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Lot 39

A large Khorasan bronze Ewer
Persia, 12th Century

8 April 2014, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£7,000 - £9,000

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A large Khorasan bronze Ewer
Persia, 12th Century

of bulbous form on a short flared foot with long flaring multi-faceted neck and everted rim, the 's' shaped handle terminating in a palmette at the base and a pair of winged palmettes at the rim, surmounted by an openwork thumb-rest in the form of a pomegranate, engraved to the body with a roundel containing a smaller off centre circle forming a crescent filled with scrolling foliate vines, the neck with two bands of inscription in kufic possibly later
41 cm. high

Footnotes

Inscriptions: around the neck, in kufic, bi'l-baraka bi'l-baraka bi'l-baraka wa al-sa'ada bi'l-baraka wa bi'l-bara[ka?], "With blessing, with blessing, with blessing and happiness, with blessing and with blessing (?)"; around the rim in cursive; wa al-'izz al-sa'ada wa al-'izz al-iqbal wa, "And glory, happiness and glory, prosperity and".

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