A SAFAVID TINNED BRASS EWER (AFTABE)

IRAN, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A SAFAVID TINNED BRASS EWER (AFTABE)
IRAN, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The drop-shaped body engraved with bands of palmettes, repairs to base of spout
14¼in. (36.2cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A ewer with similar shape and engraving is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (A.S. Melikian-Chirvani, Islamic Metalwork from the Iranian World 8-18th Centuries, London, 1982, no.142, pp.316-317). Melikian-Chirvani there writes that the ewer is typical of the Shah Abbas period (r.1588-1629). A similar ewer sold Sotheby’s, 6 April 2011, lot 330.

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