A PLAIN MUGHAL INDIAN BRASS AFTABA (EWER)
Northern India, 17th - 18th century

A PLAIN MUGHAL INDIAN BRASS AFTABA (EWER)
Northern India, 17th - 18th century

Of typical compressed pyriform shape, resting on a tall splayed foot, rising to a tapering faceted neck with a bulging ring at mid-height, and a deep almond-shaped head surmounted by a similarly shaped lid with a bulbous pommel, the sides with a flattened sinuous handle and upward-turned spout, 32cm high.

For an almost identical Mughal aftaba without its original lid, please see M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, 1997, cat. 211, p. 157.

Dimensions: 32cm high