https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/95666/fullEwer12th or early 13th century[com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@19644]com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.RecordXPerson@19644Bronze with silver inlayThis cast and engraved copper alloy (bronze?) jug is a splendid example of the later Khorasan school of metalwork. Its precisely worked and extensive silver-inlaid decoration gives the object the impression of luxury. The voluptuosuly curved body rises from a high flaring foot ring and is decorated with ten vertical facets surrounding the sloping shoulders. Its wide cylindrical neck is seperated from the body by a pronouced moulding and topped by a ribbed domical cover. A crozier-shaped handle is applied below the rim and at the base. The body bears nine large silver-inlaid ogival medallions interlaced at the sides and terminating in knotted stalks at top and bottom. All are filled iwth interlaced spiralling tendrils terminating in diamond-shaped leaves. The inlaid decoration stands out against a ground of finely incised curling volutes. Small quatrefoils surmout each medallion. A continous epigraphic band in silver-inlaid tall and slender "thulth" script circumscribes the neck. Interwoven with fine silver-inlaid spiralling foliage and framed by silver-inlaid filets, it reads: 'Glory and Prosperity and Wealth, and Endurance, and...' The handle is inlaid with a guilloche motif extending towards the base as a meandering vine. The cover's eight radial ribs with projecting buds in each interstice are finely silver-inlaid with almond-shaped cartouches. These contain foliage of the same type as the medallions but are held together here by a crescent-shaped bracket. The cover is crowned with a perching bird with a sinuous neck, outspread silver-inlaid wings and upright tail. The smooth brown-olive patina of the jug shows traces of pale green oxidation products.com.gallerysystems.emuseum.core.entities.Classification@67https://emuseum.cornell.edu/objects/37346/rdf