A PLAIN MUGHAL INDIAN BRONZE AFTABA (EWER)
Northern India, 17th century

Of typical compressed and tapering pyriform shape, resting on a tall splayed foot, rising to a flared neck with a bulging red-stained ring at mid-height, and a deep almond-shaped head, the lid now missing, the sides with a flattened sinuous handle and faceted, upward-turned, tall spout, 35.4cm high.

For an almost identical Mughal aftaba, please see M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, 1997, cat. 212, p. 157.

Dimensions: 35.4cm high