About the Artwork
Ewer
8th - 9th century
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Iranian
Islamic
Quaternary alloy (copper, tin, zinc, lead)
Overall: 13 × 7 × 5 3/4 inches (33 × 17.8 × 14.6 cm)
Metalwork
Islamic Art
City of Detroit Purchase
30.441
This work is in the public domain.
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Provenance
(Arthur Upham Pope)
1929-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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M. Aga-Oglu. Bulletin of the DIA 12 (1931): pp. 89-92, (fig. 1 ill.).
Fehervari, Geza. Islamic Metalwork of the 8th to the 15th Century in the Keir Collection. London, 1976, p. 32, cited.
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Islamic, Iranian, Ewer, 8th - 9th century, quaternary alloy (copper, tin, zinc, lead). Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.441.
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