A silver- and copper-inlaid brass high-spouted ewer, Khurasan, late 12th century

constructed out of sheet metal, beaten, engraved and inlaid, of characteristic form with cylindrical vertically-ribbed body tapering upwards and supported on a spreading waisted foot, the flattened shoulder joined to the neck by a sunburst moulding with crescent motifs between each of the sun's rays, the narrow cylindrical neck decorated with repoussé lions with further repoussé work on the faceted spout, square-section arched handle afixed below the mouth, the body and foot decorated with engraved arabesques in shaped cartouches and bands which follow the contours of the ribbed flanges with a series of regularly-spaced silver-inlaid rosettes, the shoulder with a radial band of cursive script against a ground of engraved scrolls, further scattered arabesques fill the spaces around the lion motifs on the neck, the handle with rope motif

inscriptions

Around the shoulder:

al-'izz wa al-iqbal wa al-dawla wa al-sa'ada wa al-tamma wa al-nadama (?) wa al-baqa abad[a]

'Glory and prosperity and Wealth and Happiness and Plenitude and Repentance (?) and Long-life for ever'

Around the base in Kufic: Repetition of al-birr 'Piety'

Comparable examples are illustrated in the Survey, see Pope and Ackerman 1938-9, pls.1322-28.