* A PIERCED, ENGRAVED AND TURQUOISE-SET BRASS EWER
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR
Iran, early 20th century

Of pyriform shape, resting on a splayed circular base, rising to flared shoulders and a tall tubular neck, with a circular reinforced mouth, the body and neck engraved with large turquoise-set circular medallions filled with youths in a garden with wine flasks, rosettes and floral scrolls, the pierced background enhancing the scrolling floral sprays, the central decorative motifs framed within bands of intertwined split palmettes, further vertical bands of turquoise-set rosette festoons on the shoulders, 29.5cm high.