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Lot 99R
A Mughal copper and brass ewer with Qajar painted decoration North India and Persia, 16th century, the painting 19th Century
26 October 2020, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A Mughal copper and brass ewer with Qajar painted decoration
North India and Persia, 16th century, the painting 19th Century
North India and Persia, 16th century, the painting 19th Century
of compressed globular form on a long splayed foot with strap handle surmounted by hinged lid, multifaceted spout terminating in a dragon head, painted in polychrome with seated figures in a landscape, the foot and shoulder with portrait medallions on a ground of vegetal interlace, the handle with lions and seated figures
36 cm. high
36 cm. high
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