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A BRASS EWER
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A BRASS EWER

NORTH INDIA OR DECCAN, 16TH CENTURY

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A BRASS EWER
North India or Deccan, 16th century
The spherical body with swirling ribs divided by bands of beading, on stepped and flaring trumpet foot, rising from the shoulder to a narrow neck with boss below a cup-shaped mouth and domed cover with rounded finial, the curving S-shaped spout tapering to a makara-head mouth, the handle of similar form terminating with a similar makara head, a short inscription engraved on the foot, slight old damages
13½ in. (34.2 cm.) high
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This is a particularly elegant and well-worked example of the Indian ewer. The subject was well studied by the late Mark Zebrowski ("The Indian Ewer" in Facets of Indian Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1986, pp.253-259; and Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, chapters 9 and 10, pp.134-167). There are a number of ewers he shows which are similar in various ways to the present one, but none have the swirling ribs seen here, as opposed to the more usually found fluting. The working of the makara heads here is also particularly characterful, owing more to Hindu sculpture than the heavily stylised dragon heads normally encountered.