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A METAL-MOUNTED GILT AND IRON-RED-DECORATED BLUE-GROUND WATER SPRINKLER
18TH CENTURY
The sprinkler a has tall and slender tapering neck and is covered in a deep blue glaze and decorated with gilt floral sprays, fitted with a long metal mount, probably Ottoman, 19th century, over the neck with screw-thread bird-form stopper.
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) high
Provenance
Provenance:
Samuel Putnam Avery Sr. (1822-1904) Collection, New York.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1879.
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