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Basin with lion-headed handles
Ilkhanid period
12th–13th century
Object Place: Islamic World
Medium/Technique
Fritware (stonepaste), white slip with enamel and gold leaf appliqué over turquoise-tinted glaze
Dimensions
Height x diameter: 8 × 29.8 cm (3 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Maria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession Number31.756
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsCeramics
DescriptionFlat-bottomed basin with twelve-sided flared scalloped rim, molded rosettes at concave points; lion-headed handles, molded and attached. Red and black enamel and gilding applied over turquoise-tinted glaze
ProvenanceBy 1931, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 3, 1931)