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Flask

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The Khalili Collections

Flask

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The straight neck has a flat, everted rim and two pairs of flanges. The body is divided into lozenges containing three pairs of pheasant-like birds, separated by paired half-lozenges filled with a palmette. The parallels to Sasanian silver, and to the decoration of Sasanian and early Islamic textiles, are clear and suggest that the decorative repertoire of silver was markedly more conservative than of objects in base metal. The form also recurs in glass of a rather later date.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Flask

Date

10th C or 11th C

Medium

silver sheet, hammered & worked in repoussé, engraved & parcel gilt, the ground heavily ring-matted

Accession number

375

Work type

Sculpture

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