A KHORASSAN COPPER INLAID BRONZE EWER with drop-shaped body on spreading foot rising through a moulded shoulder ridge to the animal form head with flattened sides and rising tubular spout, the aperture above covered by a small hinged lion-head cover, the elegant curving handle in the form of a highly stylised lion with scrolling motifs on the four haunches and with small scrolling tail, curving up to the elongated head above the cover, the shoulder ridge inlaid with a simple band of copper, the front of the body with a cusped arched vacant panel with engraved and inlaid outline, the underside of the foot with a repoussé rosette, 12th century