Indian Mutton Fat Jade Carved Fish-Shaped Gunpowder Flask

LATE 20TH-21ST CENTURY A.D.

7 5/8 in. (331 grams, 19.5 cm).

Carved in the round in the form of a fish with S-curved body in grey-white stone; the finial a bird's head and neck; fish-head with open jaws, lotus-flower knops as stoppers.

Provenance

Private collection, UK.

Literature

Cf. Elsiedy, R., ‘Persian Powder Flasks Preserved in the Gayer–Anderson Museum in Cairo: An Archaeological and Artistic Study’ in Shedet, issue no.5 (2018) pp.138-161, fig.1-2, type II, for a similar type of flask.

CONDITION

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