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Antiquities, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art: Featuring Selections from the Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi Collection

Antiquities, Islamic, and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art: Featuring Selections from the Dr. Mohammed Said Farsi Collection

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Lot 110: AN UMAYYAD OR EARLY ABBASID BRONZE EWER, PERSIA OR MESOPOTAMIA, 8TH/ 9TH CENTURY

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Start price: £2,800

Estimated price: £3,000 - £4,000

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of piriform on a splayed foot with waisted neck and flattened rim cast with foliate details to each side, the handle with raised bands at grip, surmounted by a large palmette motif, the neck and rim engraved with scrolling and undulating foliate details.
27 cm. high
For a similar ewer in the Aga Khan Collection, see The Unity of Islamic Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Riyadh, 1985, no. 79, and for another similar shaped ewer signed by Abu Yazid in the Art Museum of Georgia in Tbilisi, see V. Loukonine and A. Ivanov, Persian Lost Treasures, London, 2003, no. 86, p. 98.