A FINE POST SASSANIAN BRONZE EWER

PERSIA OR MESOPOTAMIA, 7TH/8TH CENTURY

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A FINE POST SASSANIAN BRONZE EWER
PERSIA OR MESOPOTAMIA, 7TH/8TH CENTURY
Of elegant form with drop-shaped body and waisted neck widening to the everted lip with extruded mouldings at the mouth, the S-shape handle with bold palmette thumbpiece above and stylised animal-head terminal below, on short spreading foot, the body undecorated except for a band around the shoulder, very slight denting and damage, remarkable strong blue patination
11¾in. (29.8cm.) high

拍品專文

This belongs to a group of early Islamic bronze ewers of which there are a number of examples (Baer, E.: Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, New York 1983, p.83f.). The key piece to the attribution of the group is the ewer found in the Caucasus and now in the Museum of Tiflis. This bears an inscription stating that it was made in Basra in AH 69/686-7 AD by a certain Ibn Yazid (Baer, op. cit., fig.166).