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Lot Essay
The inscriptions contain a short ghazal from the Gulistan of Sa'di (M.A.Forought: Kulliyat-e sa'di, Tehran, 1371, p.16). A cartouche under the spout names the owner as "the daughter of Mirza Hakim Tabataba'i).
An engraved brass pouring vessel of slightly smaller dimensions, dated 1590-1 AD, is in the Louvre Museum (Marthe Bernus-Taylor: Les Arts de l'Islam, Paris, 2001, ill.p.103.). Another of similar form and material to that is in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Kjeld von Folsach: Art form the World of Islam, Copenhagen, 2001, no.530, p.329). The way the spout springs from the body on this example, continuing the curve of the waist, is particularly elegant here and not matched by either of the brass examples.
An engraved brass pouring vessel of slightly smaller dimensions, dated 1590-1 AD, is in the Louvre Museum (Marthe Bernus-Taylor: Les Arts de l'Islam, Paris, 2001, ill.p.103.). Another of similar form and material to that is in the David Collection, Copenhagen (Kjeld von Folsach: Art form the World of Islam, Copenhagen, 2001, no.530, p.329). The way the spout springs from the body on this example, continuing the curve of the waist, is particularly elegant here and not matched by either of the brass examples.