Oliver White
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Lot 17
A Khorasan silver inlaid bronze Jug (kuze) Persia, early 13th Century
23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£8,000 - £12,000
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A Khorasan silver inlaid bronze Jug (kuze)
Persia, early 13th Century
Persia, early 13th Century
with faceted, pear-shaped body, cylindrical neck, standing on a splayed foot, the s-shaped handle surmounted by a feline figure, the decoration incised and inlaid, the body with four tiers of off-set eight-pointed rosettes, around the neck a continuous frieze of human headed inscription against scrolling palmettes, the foot with a frieze of upright petals
19cm. high
19cm. high
Footnotes
Provenance: Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Works of Art, 11th October 2000, lot 517; Sultan Ali Mirza Collection, Paris, (Kapandji Morhange, Partie de la collection de son altesse royale Soltan 'Ali Mirza Qajar, petit fils de Mohammad 'Ali Shah, d'une partie de la famille et a divers, Hotel Drouot, 19 April 2012.
The inscription is benedictory.
The rosette design can be seen on a 13th/ 14th Century candlestick in the British Museum, London (Rachel Ward, Islamic Metalwork, London, 1993, pl. 72). The same pattern is also on a bowl in the Bargello Museum, Florence, (Eva Baer, Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, New York, 1983, fig. 89).