Lot 39
An early Islamic bronze Ewer Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th/ 9th Century
6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th/ 9th Century
Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th/ 9th Century
piriform on a splayed foot with waisted multifaceted neck and flattened rim cast with foliate details to each side, the handle with raised bands at grip, surmounted by a large palmette motif, the base engraved with large eight-petalled flowerhead, the neck and rim engraved with scrolling and undulating foliate details
38.5 cm. high
38.5 cm. high
Footnotes
For a similar ewer in the Aga Khan Collection, see The Unity of Islamic Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Riyadh, 1985, no. 79, and for another similar shaped ewer signed by Abu Yazid in the Art Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi, see V. Loukonine and A. Ivanov, Persian Lost Treasures, London, 2003, no. 86, p. 98.