Made by the workshop Skandar Matar & Sons, Nazareth (according to engraving)
Vase
Asia, Israel, Nazareth
20th century
Brass, engraved
Gift to the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden from the Israeli Communist Party on the occasion of the 9th SED Party Congress in 1976
Handed over to the museum by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED on December 20, 1982
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With two calligraphies and two images, this brass vessel features four differently patterned surfaces, each arranged opposite the other. The depictions of the horseman, the bird with a grape branch as well as the two different Arabic calligraphies demonstrate how close the traditions of Persian-Safavid imagery and Persian-Arabic calligraphy were.
An engraving on the bottom of the vase points to a workshop in Nazareth, Israel. This piece was probably made in the 1970s.
It was presented to the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) by the Israeli Communist Party on the occasion of the SED's 9th Party Congress in 1976. In December of 1982, the vessel was eventually handed over to the Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden as part of a bundle of items, including other state gifts to the GDR, by the Politburo of the Central Committee of the SED.
Simone Jansen