Eight metal objects

Description:

Khorasan a.o., 13th c. and later
H: 9 - 22 cm
Four bronze vases, some with openwork and engraved ornamentation, a rosewater sprinkler, an incense burner, a bronze lidded box and a copper-bronze lid with silver-inlaid decoration.
From the collection of art dealer and collector Saeed Motamed (1925-2013), collected since the 1950s, largely documented in a 1998 inventory with drawings and Persian descriptions. Partially documented in exhibition catalogs since the 1970s, see inventory under no. 1606, p. 181, no. 1617, p. 182; nos. 1633 and 1634, p. 184; nos. 1697 and 1698, p. 193. - Partial damage due to age