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Animal-headed pitcher

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This ewer features a squat, high-hipped body, atop a hollow foot ring. The neck tapers to a spout in the shape of an animal head. The head is crowned by horns that curve into circles. A small handle curves from the back of the animal head to a second and simpler spout, that presumably made it easier to fill the ewer and pour from it. Surface decoration is both carved (incised lines on the horns) and molded (segment lines and arabesques on the body). Small scrolling lines within the segments echo the shape of the horns. Except for the foot ring, the ewer is covered in translucent cobalt-blue glaze.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art Ann B. Goodman and Arthur B. Pardee Cambridge MA (by 2003) gift; to Harvard University Art Museums 2003. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Ann B. Goodman and Arthur B. Pardee
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Title: Animal-headed pitcher
Description:
This ewer features a squat, high-hipped body, atop a hollow foot ring.
The neck tapers to a spout in the shape of an animal head.
The head is crowned by horns that curve into circles.
A small handle curves from the back of the animal head to a second and simpler spout, that presumably made it easier to fill the ewer and pour from it.
Surface decoration is both carved (incised lines on the horns) and molded (segment lines and arabesques on the body).
Small scrolling lines within the segments echo the shape of the horns.
Except for the foot ring, the ewer is covered in translucent cobalt-blue glaze.

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