A FINE KHORASSAN BRONZE EWER with shouldered spherical body, the tubular neck with a central band of vertical flutes, flaring mouth, the loop handle with a string of bosses, thumb piece in the form of a pomegranate, sylised leaf motifs at the juncture with body and neck, on short foot, the neck engraved either side of the fluting with lozenge lattices containing floral motifs on ring-pounced ground, the leafy junctures of the handle with similar very delicate designs, chevron motifs around the mouth, the foot elaborately engraved with a lobed quatrefoil enclosing palmette panels on similar pronounced ground within quartered lobed panelled border, 9th century (areas of corrosion, otherwise intact) | Christie's

Lot 273

273

A FINE KHORASSAN BRONZE EWER with shouldered spherical body, the tubular neck with a central band of vertical flutes, flaring mouth, the loop handle with a string of bosses, thumb piece in the form of a pomegranate, sylised leaf motifs at the juncture with body and neck, on short foot, the neck engraved either side of the fluting with lozenge lattices containing floral motifs on ring-pounced ground, the leafy junctures of the handle with similar very delicate designs, chevron motifs around the mouth, the foot elaborately engraved with a lobed quatrefoil enclosing palmette panels on similar pronounced ground within quartered lobed panelled border, 9th century (areas of corrosion, otherwise intact)

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A FINE KHORASSAN BRONZE EWER with shouldered spherical body, the tubular neck with a central band of vertical flutes, flaring mouth, the loop handle with a string of bosses, thumb piece in the form of a pomegranate, sylised leaf motifs at the juncture with body and neck, on short foot, the neck engraved either side of the fluting with lozenge lattices containing floral motifs on ring-pounced ground, the leafy junctures of the handle with similar very delicate designs, chevron motifs around the mouth, the foot elaborately engraved with a lobed quatrefoil enclosing palmette panels on similar pronounced ground within quartered lobed panelled border, 9th century (areas of corrosion, otherwise intact)
13in. (33cm.) high

Lot Essay

A very similar Khorassan bronze ewer is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York (Baer, E.: Metalwork in Medieval Islamic Art, New York 1983, pl.70, p.92). Both examples appear to come from the same workshop; they are of identical form and have unusually delicate engraved bands of floral decoration on a ring-pounced ground.

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