Excerpt: Ruba Kana’an, head of Research and Publications at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, presented her paper entitled, A Biography of a 13th-century Brass Ewer: the Social and Economic Lives of Mosul Metalwork, on Sunday.
The Doha ewer, having been made for Abu’l Qasim Mahmud ibn Sanjar Shah who ruled the Jazirat Bani Umar in the first half of the 13th century, is comparable to other surviving Mosul ewers currently in major museum collections including the British museum, the Louver and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Kana’an, examined the ewer’s decorative style and motifs, manufacturing techniques, and patronage and also the social, economic and political context of Mosul where these ewers were produced.
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