Lot 21R
An Umayyad or early Abbasid bronze ewer Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th/ 9th Century
25 October 2021, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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An Umayyad or early Abbasid bronze ewer
Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th/ 9th Century
Persia or Mesopotamia, 8th/ 9th Century
of piriform on a splayed foot with waisted neck and flattened rim cast with foliate details to each side, the handle with raised bands at grip, surmounted by a large palmette motif, the neck and rim engraved with scrolling and undulating foliate details
27 cm. high
27 cm. high
Footnotes
For a similar ewer in the Aga Khan Collection, see The Unity of Islamic Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Riyadh, 1985, no. 79, and for another similar shaped ewer signed by Abu Yazid in the Art Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi, see V. Loukonine and A. Ivanov, Persian Lost Treasures, London, 2003, no. 86, p. 98.
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