Lot 191
- 191
A fine brass ewer, Persia or India, 17th Century
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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Description
- brass
the body of bulbous bud-form supported on a narrow splayed foot with serpentine spout and arched handle surmounted with a hinged mouth and cover with palmette finial
Catalogue Note
It was believed that the form of the Safavid ewer was the prototype for a number of arched handled ewers produced in India from the seventeenth century onwards. Two Persian examples are illustrated in Zebrowski 1997, figs. 198, 201, one of which is dated 1011 AH/ 1602-3 AD. A fifteenth-century ewer made for a Hindu temple in 1415 AD brings Zebrowski to question whether in fact the form originated in India and spread westwards to Iran during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries (ibid. p.153).