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Basin with lion-headed handles

12th–13th century
Object PlaceIslamic World
Medium/TechniqueFritware (stonepaste), white slip with enamel and gold leaf appliqué over turquoise-tinted glaze
DimensionsHeight x diameter: 8 × 29.8 cm (3 1/8 × 11 3/4 in.)
Credit LineMaria Antoinette Evans Fund and funds donated by Edward Jackson Holmes
Accession number31.756
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Not on view
ClassificationsCeramics
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1931, purchased by Arthur Upham Pope for the MFA. (Accession Date: September 3, 1931)
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