Curvaceous Arabic Style Brass Ewer Large 34cm High Hinge needs Minor Repair

Curvaceous Arabic Style Brass Ewer Large 34cm High

A HAND CRAFTED ARABIC STYLE BRASS EWER. ENGRAVED WITH FLORAL DESIGN CHARACTERISTIC TO INDIA. THESE EWERS ALTHOUGH ORIGINALLY FROM ARABIA WAS INTRODUCED TO INDIA BY MUSLIM INVADERS DURING THE 13TH CENTURY. INDIA IS CURRENTLY THE LARGEST BRASSWARE MAKING COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
 
Ewers (meaning wide mouth spout) is water vessels traditionally with wide mouths. In India, local Muslims used such vessels for handwashing. They became a practical tool of hospitality, being used to welcome visitors by pouring scented water over the hands and feet and into a basin, and took on a great variety of shapes and types whilst adhering to the basic ewer form. Sometimes they were filled not just with water but delicately-scented rosewater.
 
Ewers of this type resembling a large coffee pot or Dalah also have their origins in Persia and the Middle East. Typical Islamic ewers comprised a central chamber to which a spout, foot, handle and neck were attached. They permitted water to flow Koranic injunctions deemed flowing water to be clean. Ewers were introduced to India by Muslim invaders during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Thereafter their designs were Indianised the ewers became more curvaceous and many were decorated with lush plant and floral motifs.
 
SIZE EWER 27CM WIDE FROM SPOUT TO HANDLE 34CM HIGH UP TO LID FINIAAL
 
CONDITION: HINGE BETWEEN LID AND POT NEEDS A SOLDERED REPAIR. OTHERWISE IN GOOD CONDITION WITH ONLY SOME MINOR BRASS WEAR.
 
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