Lot 5012. An animal-headed fritware ewer, Iranian world, 12th - 13th century. H 30 cm. Estimated price €500 - €1.000. Result: €620. Courtesy Lempertz.

Turquoise glaze with coarse craquelure. Thrown vessel with a modelled spout designed as a horned animal head, handle and thumb-rest. Restored over breakages, traces of sintering and lustre.

Literature: Cf. Grube, Islamic Pottery of the Eighth to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London 1976, p. 171, no. 119.. 

Lempertz. Asian Art II China, Tibetan/Nepalese Art, 18.06.2017, 10:30, Brussels