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Ewer

about 1220–30

Object PlaceWestern Iran

Medium/TechniqueBrass with silver, gold, and copper inlay, applied silver repoussé details, and mercury gilding

DimensionsHeight x width: 16 3/4 x 7 1/16 in. (42.5 x 18 cm)

Credit LineGift of Edward Jackson Holmes

Accession number49.1901

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Inscriptions- band at top of neck: "Lasting might, growing success, ascending luck to its owner" - at base of neck: "Lasting might, immune life, enduring good fortune, for ever, to its owner" - at base of handle, repeated twice on each side facet: "Lasting might i[mmune] life" - underside: "Lasting might, immune life,/ auspicious fate, godliness, for ever, until his burial to its own[er]!/ Helping desiny, rising luck!

ProvenanceBy 1904, Octave Homberg (b. 1844 - d. 1907), Paris; May 11-16, 1908, posthumous Homberg sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 334, sold for 12,150 fr. By 1944, Edward Jackson Holmes (b. 1873 – d. 1950), Boston; 1949, gift of Edward Jackson Holmes to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 8, 1949)