A TIBETAN GILT-COPPER EWER, PENBA HU

A TIBETAN GILT-COPPER EWER, PENBA HU
18TH/19TH CENTURY

The twelve-sided pear-shaped body embossed with floral cartouches, with a flared neck and foot, 1.4kg, 29cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Norman Blount, 1875-1930. Norman Blount was a jute broker, as well as the joint secretary (with the artist Abanindranath Tagore) of the Indian Society of Oriental Art, which was founded in 1907 in Calcutta, with Lord Kitchener the Society’s President.

Cf. Christie’s London, 25th June 1998, lot 161 for an almost identical example.