of 'kettle' shape, with bulbous body rising to a bud-shaped finial, on trumpet foot, elongated tapering spout, curved handle with raised rectangular opening in the centre with everted rim, missing lid, body decorated with a circular band of engraved diamond shaped motifs around finial
30 cm. high

Footnotes

It is generally believed that "kettle" ewers with their centrally placed curved handles and onion dome bodies evolved first in Persia. The form is then said to have spread to India in the 16th Century. With the number of Indian examples which have been located, it has also been suggested that the form may have originated in India and then spread westwards to Persia in the 15th and 16th Centuries. For a discussion and illustrations of comparable Indian examples dating from the 16th and 17th Centuries, see M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, pp. 152 - 155.

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A Mughal brass Ewer Deccan, India, 16th/17th Century

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