Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Lot 78R
A Ming pottery vase mounted as a ewer with Zand brass mounts China and Persia, the ewer 15th/ 16th Century, the mounts dated AH 1192/ AD 1778
22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street£2,000 - £3,000
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A Ming pottery vase mounted as a ewer with Zand brass mounts
China and Persia, the ewer 15th/ 16th Century, the mounts dated AH 1192/ AD 1778
China and Persia, the ewer 15th/ 16th Century, the mounts dated AH 1192/ AD 1778
the pottery body of bulbous form on a tall stepped foot, decorated in blue on a white ground with foliate and geometric designs, mounted with a brass waisted neck with central moulded ring, rising to a domed hinged lid, engraved and decorated with bands of inscription, and inscription-filled cartouches on a ground of foliate and floral scrollwork with perching birds, the brass handle of curving form engraved and decorated with scrolling split-palmettes and floral motifs, a compartment with hinged lid to top section, the brass spout terminating in a flowerhead surmounted by a palmette, engraved and decorated to the underside with a seated figure in a cartouche, above a floral motif
31.5 cm. high
31.5 cm. high
Footnotes
Inscriptions: the texts include Arabic invocational verses to Imam 'Ali, Call to God to bless the Fourteen Innocents, invocations to God and couplets in Persian in praise of the Prophet and Imam 'Ali. It is dated Monday 12 Muharram 1192 (28 December 1778).
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