Lot 127
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A CAST SILVER EWER (LOTA)
A CAST SILVER EWER (LOTA)

CENTRAL OR NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY

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A CAST SILVER EWER (LOTA)
CENTRAL OR NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY
Rising from a short foot through a rounded body with stepped shoulder to slightly flaring cylindrical neck with wide flat rim, the curved handle in the form of a rampant lion with pronounced eyebrows and a palmette on its head, the spout with a lion-head terminal with a similar palmette motif on the head, below the spout a large raised cusped palmette, two punched inscriptions in devanagari around the neck and around the body
6½in. (16.7cm.) high

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Lot Essay

The form of this ewer with its squat rounded body with the base of the applied spout in the form of a cusped medallion is very similar to a brass ewer attributed by Mark Zebrowski to 18th Century Deccan, (Mark Zebrowski, Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, pl.520). This ewer is remarkable for its very restrained decoration which is limited to the spout and the handle.

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