An animal-headed fritware ewer - image-1

Lot 5023 Dα

An animal-headed fritware ewer

Auction 1093 - overview Brussels
18.06.2017, 10:30 - Oriental Works of Art from Belgian Collections
Estimate: 400 € - 600 €
Result: 397 € (incl. premium)
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An animal-headed fritware ewer

Cobalt blue glaze with fine craquelure. Modelled and subsequently constructed vessel comprising a long neck with a (possibly not original) horned animal-head spout of bovine appearance and a handle with thumb-rest. The shoulders decorated with two striding felines and courtly scenes in medallions. The handle and neck presumably a subsequent addition. Restored. H 25 cm.
Iranian world, 12th - 13th C.

Literature

Cf. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London 1976, p. 171, no. 120. A similar long-necked flask in the Museum für Islamische Kunst Berlin, inv. no. I. 59/62.