An animal-headed fritware ewer - image-1

Lot 5012 Dα

An animal-headed fritware ewer

Auction 1093 - overview Brussels
18.06.2017, 10:30 - Oriental Works of Art from Belgian Collections
Estimate: 500 € - 1.000 €
Result: 620 € (incl. premium)

An animal-headed fritware ewer

Turquoise glaze with coarse craquelure. Thrown vessel with a modelled spout designed as a horned animal head, handle and thumb-rest. Restored over breakages, traces of sintering and lustre. H 30 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. 119.