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.

十八/十九世紀 黃銅製賁巴壺
來源：諾曼·布朗特（1875-1930）收藏。諾曼布朗特曾是一個黃麻經銷商，與藝術家泰戈爾一起擔任了印度東方藝術協會的聯合秘書（1907年於加爾各答成立），而霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916)為協會主席。