EWER (PC-156)
Region From: Likely Isfahan or Shiraz, Persia.
Estimated Date of Production: Late 1600s to mid 1700s.
Dimensions: 190 mm in height, 93 mm in circumference (both measurements excluding spout).
Weight: 239 grams
Colour: Medium Cobalt Blue.
Technique: Open pontilled, shaped foot, applied ring, finger handle, rigaree, decorated spout. Gilt paint mostly intact.
Description: Delightful, fine, classic late Persian ewer. Very similar to PC-131.
Condition: Near mint.
Provenance: Purchased 2013, formerly in a New York City collection – still bears the auction house tag from its previous purchase in the 1950s.
Literature: substantial.
Related Works outside this collection: Substantial. Metropolitan Museum has 40+.
