A Deccan Brass Ewer

South India, circa 17th Century

20.2 cm., 8 in. height

The body decorated with diagonal flutes and long faceted spout, the arched handle with twin lion supports

Other ewers of this type are discussed in M. Zebrowski, Gold, Silver and Bronze from Mughal India, London, 1997, pp. 154-5, no. 200, 205 & 206.

These three ewers, the earliest dated 1415 A.D., do not have the distinctive lion supports present in this example, which are reminiscent of stone lions found on column-bases in Hindu sculpture of the Chola and Vijayanagar periods.