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Ewer, Signed by Ibn Yazid

688/689 or 783/784 or 882/883
Not on view
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.
This elegantly shaped metal ewer is an everyday object transformed into a sophisticated work of art. The Arabic inscription in Kufic script around the rim identifies the artist: "Blessings to he who fashioned it, Ibn Yazid, part of what was made at Basra in the year sixty-nine." The vessel combines Byzantine-inspired surface decorations with a pear-shaped body, long neck, high-flaring foot, and half-palmette-shaped handle related to post-Sasanian metalwork. The ewer’s heavy form and the faceting on its body and neck suggest a late eighth- or ninth-century date.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Ewer, Signed by Ibn Yazid
  • Date: 688/689 or 783/784 or 882/883
  • Geography: Made in Iraq
  • Medium: Copper alloy, cast
  • Dimensions: 25 11/16 x 12 11/16 x 18 9/16 in., 22.707lb. (65.2 x 32.2 x 47.2 cm, 10.3 kg)
  • Classification: Metalwork
  • Credit Line: Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi (w\k I\5)
  • Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters