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LOT 0913
Western Asiatic Decorated Ceramic Ewer
CIRCA 14TH-16TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/4 in. (568 grams, 18.5 cm).
The bulbous body with impressed whorl, pellet, bar and other ornament, ropework ring to the shoulder, flared neck and tiered mouth, strap handle to the reverse and a rolled foot; Turkish workmanship; chipped. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the European art market in the 1990s.
Ex property of a Suffolk collector.
Cf. Lane, A., Later Islamic Pottery: Persia, Syria, Egypt, Turkey, London, 1957, item 55(a).
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