About the Artwork
Ewer inscribed "Prosperity, favor"
ca. 1200
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Iranian
Islamic
Leaded bronze inlaid with copper
Overall: 10 × 6 1/4 × 5 3/4 inches (25.4 × 15.9 × 14.6 cm)
Metalwork
Islamic Art
City of Detroit Purchase
30.439
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, Kufic script: bi 'l-yumn [translated: in prosperity]
Provenance
(Arthur Upham Pope)
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Pope, Arthur Upham, ed. Survey of Persian Art, vol. VI. London, New York, 1939, pl. 1296B (ill.).
Oglu, Mehmet Aga. "Some Islamic Bronzes of the Middle Ages," Bulletin of the DIA 12, no. 8 (May 1931): pp. 90-92.
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Islamic, Iranian, Ewer inscribed "Prosperity, favor", ca. 1200, leaded bronze inlaid with copper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.439.
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