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THBSeljuk Bronze Spouted Pouring Vessel - Felines
Lot 69b
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Medieval Middle East, Turkey/Persia, Seljuk Empire (sometimes Seljuq), ca. 10th to 12th centuries CE. A fascinating bronze pouring vessel with a feline motif that calls to mind the opulence of royalty and the glory of the hunt. The vessel has a bulbous body, a narrow neck, and a flaring mouth with a thick rim. On one side of the body, a sleek feline head - a lioness or a leopard - juts outward from the side, with a tall, horizontally elongated spout projecting from the top of its head. Behind the head is a series of bulbous half-spheres that form a border around the head. On the opposite side of the vessel is a bronze applique of a full-bodied feline splayed on is stomach around he shoulder. This feline has deeply excavated eyes that probably once had inlays, perhaps of precious metal or gems. 8 Size: 4.2" L x 11.7" W x 5.2" H (10.7 cm x 29.7 cm x 13.2 cm)
Fantastical animals - especially ones based on felines - were common throughout the ancient Islamic world, and Seljuk art and architecture is no exception. Felines seem especially to have been associated with pouring vessels, which some scholars believe is a long-lost influence of Roman Bacchanalian imagery, its original meaning lost by the time the Seljuks produced this vessel.
Provenance: private East Coast, USA collection
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#137188Light encrustation on surface, with a pretty, mottled patina. Intact. Two dents on one side of the feline figure. Inlays are likely missing from the eyes of the feline figure on the back.Condition
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