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LOT 0285
Kashan Glazed Handled Jug
12TH-13TH CENTURY A.D.
6 1/4 in. (445 grams, 15.8 cm).
Spherical body on short ring foot, thin tubular neck, flared spout with D-section handle, blue and white glazed vertical stripes with iridescence; an old label to the underside; repaired. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private family collection of Ersula Barter-Hemmerich, the longest serving member of staff working at the United Nations, her private collection formed in the 1950s and 1960s; thence by descent to her grandson.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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