Lot 901

Description

1) Bronze oil lamp with a rounded body. In the centre a round filling hole, surmounted by a tall, faceted mouth with a flared, serrated border. At the rear end of the mouth a strap handle arching down to the soft break of the body. On the top of the handle a cheek hinge for attaching a disc-shaped lid, serrated on the outside, with a central faceted cone. The nozzle very long drawn out and faceted, at the front with a pointed, drop-shaped mouth. Drop-shaped, slightly flared base below an approx. 1 cm high foot of the same outline. On the body incised decoration of pairs or groups of three vertical strokes. Very fine, slightly lustrous Patina with isolated small areas of red oxide deposits. Minor casting flaws, intact. Length 18.5 cm. 2) Small bronze oil lamp with a hexagonal body and three elongated nozzles. At the bottom three short, column-shaped feet. In the centre a hexagonal dome with six windows with arched tops, above it a conical stem with a mushroom-shaped finial. Wide 7 cm. Height 6 cm. Minor casting flaws, dark Patina, intact. 3) Shallowly domed, round bowl with incised inscriptions and animal representations: on the exterior a cartouche with Nastaliq script. On the interior, running inwards from the border, two narrow zones with Arabic script, followed by a wide zone with animal representations (including zebu, ram, fish, head of a big cat frontal, ...), with script likewise in the spandrels between the animal representations. Lateral crack at the border. Inner zone with the animal representations slightly rubbed, green oxide deposits. Wide 18.5 cm. CULTURAL ASSET!

Provenance: Private collection in Munich (estate), acquired by the father on the German art market between the 1970s and 1990s.

Condition: II + Questions about the lot?