Bottle with friezes depicting sphinxes, birds, and an inscription

Details

• Title

  Bottle with friezes depicting sphinxes, birds, and an inscription

• Associated place

  Asia › Iran (place of creation)

• Date

  late 12th century

• Material and technique

  fritware, with overglaze painting in lustre

• Object type

  container › vessel › bottle

• Dimensions

  21.5 cm (height)
  13.5 cm (diameter)
  at base 7.5 cm (diameter)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Accepted by HM Government under the Cultural Gifts Scheme from the Ades Family Collection and allocated to the Ashmolean Museum, 2019.

• Museum location

  not on display

• Museum department

  Eastern Art

• Accession no.

  EA2019.67

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