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Lot 25

A Fatimid bronze ewer
Egypt, 10th Century

23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £5,120 inc. premium

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A Fatimid bronze ewer
Egypt, 10th Century

on three waisted feet with wide cylindrical body and sloping shoulder, long straight spout to one side, the tall flaring neck with flattened everted rim and palmettes flanking a simple handle, the handle surmounted by a baluster-shaped knop thumb-piece
41.1 cm. tall

Footnotes

For a comparative example, see Michael Spink, Brasses, Bronze and Silver of the Islamic Lands, London, 2022, pp. 92-93, cat. 52. For a Fatimid bronze ewer sold at Christie's, see Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 17 April 2007, lot 80.

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