JB.1344. Jug with a dragon handle, cast bronze.
Globularbody, resting on a low foot-ring, short
cylindrical neck which has a collar at its lower
end a
rolled rim on top. An elegant “dragon-shaped”
handle is attached.
Iran, Khorasan, probably Herat, lat Ilkhanid or
early
Timurid period, 14th century.
Remarks: This ewer may be a prototype of the
later
brass dragon handled ewers which were made at
Herat in Timurid times and later on in India.
Prof. Geza Fehervari
Prof. Geoffrey King
JB1344 TIMURID DRAGON-HANDLED JUG,
CENTRAL
ASIA, LATE 14TH- EARLY 15TH CENTURY ACE
Beautifully cast bronze jug; of squat, globular
form
standing upon short footring; tall, vertical sided
mouth rises up from torus moulding at shoulders
through to everted rim; undulated handle in form
of
a dragon. A superb, glossy, variegated patina
over
whole.
Dragon-handled, pot-bellied drinking cups were a
feature of the Herat school in Afghanistan under
the
Timurids, a Turkic-Mongol dynasty that came to
eminence in ACE 1307, presiding over a realm
that
comprised modern-day Iran, the Caucasus,
Mesopotamia, Afghanistan and much of Central
Asia.
Prof. Geza Fehervari
Prof. Geoffrey King
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