A large Khorasan bronze Ewer Persia, 12th Century
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Persia, 12th Century
Persia, 12th Century
35 cm. high
Footnotes
The inscriptions read: Round the shoulder, "With Good-fortune Blessing, Generosity and Wealth"; on the ribs in cursive,"Blessing....Generosity"; and in kufic: "Work of 'Uthman".
This magnificent ewer, which is cast in bronze, relates to a number of others with either a globular or a fluted body. They all have upward pointing beak like spouts and lugs on the side of the neck for attachment of rings. The group can be dated through comparison with lustre pottery of similar form, datable to the second half of the 12th Century (for example Oliver Watson, Persian Lustre Ware, London, 1985, fig.45). For another comparison in the Keir Collection, see Geza Fehervari, Islamic Metalwork of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, pl. 15,no. 51. A similar ewer was sold at Sotheby's (Arts of the Islamic World, 13th April 2000, lot 64).