NORTH EAST IRAN, 12TH CENTURY

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A KHORASSAN BRONZE EWER
NORTH EAST IRAN, 12TH CENTURY
With shouldered spherical body rising to a slightly widening tubular neck with flaring rim, extending at one side to the handle linking down to the shoulder, on short rounded foot, the body engraved with a frontal arched panel of interlaced vine, each side with a similar engraved roundel, a kufic benedictory inscription at the base of the neck, further larger kufic inscription below the mouth, large pomegranate thumbpiece, surface rubbed, small re-engraved areas, green and brown patination
14½in. (37cm.)high

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拍品專文

The inscription around the mouth reads:
b'il-yumn wa al-baraka wa al-sa'ada.
That on the shoulder reads:
b'il-yumn wa al-baraka wa al-baqa li-sahibihi