PROBABLY JAZIRA, LATE 13TH OR EARLY 14TH CENTURY

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A SILVER INLAID WHITE BRONZE VASE
PROBABLY JAZIRA, LATE 13TH OR EARLY 14TH CENTURY
Of drop form with tubular neck and flaring mouth on short spreading foot, the body with a band of three cusped roundels each containing a seated human figure linked by a band of benedictory naskh, a similar band of naskh above, minor further borders, some inlaid, originally with handle, foot dented and re-applied, some loss of silver, surface corrosion in places
5in. (12.7cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The present small vase is very similar in outline and a number of decorative features to two vases, one in the Aron Collection and attributed to the Jazira (James Allan, Metalwork of the Islamic World, the Aron Collection, London, 1986, no.4, pp.76-7), the other excavated at Afrasiyab/Samarkand (Terres Secrètes de Samarkand, exhibition catalogue, Paris, 1993, no.336, pp.29 and 121). A further similar example is attributed to Siirt (James Allan, Islamic Metalwork, the Nuhad es-Said Collection, London, 1982, no.10, pp.70-1). In his discussion of the Aron Collection example James Allan makes a strong case for a Jaziran origin.

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