An engraved Khorassan bronze ewer, Northeast Iran,...

An engraved Khorassan bronze ewer, Northeast Iran, 10th-11th century, the drop-shaped body rising from a spreading foot, the narrow neck flaring to the everted mouth with two moulded beetles either side, the curved handle with thumbpiece in the form of a flaring palmette, the body decorated with a band of inscription cartouches, alternating with lobed medallions containing a scrolling vine above and below stylized trees containing animals and further lobed cartouches, the foot and rim with engr