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This iron urn is assembled from five pieces: neck, body, base, and two handles. The round sections appear to have been lathe-turned. The applied ornament is in two colours of gold wire and leaf. The inspiration for this diminutive vase is the well-known series of so-called Alhambra vases of the Nasirid period already copied by Plácido for Alfred Morrison (see ZUL 104 and ZUL 94). The octagonal neck, not seen on Plácido's Morrison copies, imitates the fourteenth-century originals. The body is divided into three decorative bands, the upper containing arabesques and cartouches with the Nasirid motto. The broad central band contains a series of six slightly pointed horseshoe arches framing symmetrical palmettes. The lower is similarly decorated with a series of broad vertical leaves and arabesques.