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NORTH EAST PERSIA, 11TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL KHORASSAN BRONZE BOTTLE
NORTH EAST PERSIA, 11TH CENTURY
With spherical body rising through a narrow neck to the flaring cup shaped mouth, the body pierced through to leave bold stylised palmette panels filled with tightly drawn engraved scrolling motifs, the holes revealing the inner shell of sheet copper, the mouth filled with a delicate pierced scrolling palmette filter, a band of cast bosses around the outside of the mouth
5in. (12.5cm.) high
NORTH EAST PERSIA, 11TH CENTURY
With spherical body rising through a narrow neck to the flaring cup shaped mouth, the body pierced through to leave bold stylised palmette panels filled with tightly drawn engraved scrolling motifs, the holes revealing the inner shell of sheet copper, the mouth filled with a delicate pierced scrolling palmette filter, a band of cast bosses around the outside of the mouth
5in. (12.5cm.) high