AN EARLY ISLAMIC BRONZE EWER IRAQ, 8TH CENTURY With drop-shaped body elegantly rising through the banded shoulder to the slightly flaring mouth with extruded tapering square-section trough spout surmounted by a hinged cover, the handle with an ibex head at each end, the thumbpiece in the form of a ram's head, the body with a main band of four large roundels each containing scenes in low relief of remarkable liveliness, divided by floral columns surmounted by birds, a band of meandering flowering vine above and below, cover and foot replaced, surface rubbed, old repair to neck 12½in. (31.8cm.) high
AN EARLY ISLAMIC BRONZE EWER IRAQ, 8TH CENTURY With drop-shaped body elegantly rising through the banded shoulder to the slightly flaring mouth with extruded tapering square-section trough spout surmounted by a hinged cover, the handle with an ibex head at each end, the thumbpiece in the form of a ram's head, the body with a main band of four large roundels each containing scenes in low relief of remarkable liveliness, divided by floral columns surmounted by birds, a band of meandering flowering vine above and below, cover and foot replaced, surface rubbed, old repair to neck 12½in. (31.8cm.) high
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