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Islamic Fraction
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Nanette B. Rodney
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Lamp in the form of a bird
Lamp in the form of a bird
Lamps are an excellent example of the way in which basic metalwork forms continued from the pre-Islamic into the Islamic periods, with only gradual changes over the centuries to br...
Dish with Qur'anic Inscription
Dish with Qur'anic Inscription
The placement of fish at the bottom of a vessel associated with water is a long-standing tradition in Islamic metalwork and can be seen in several earlier objects in this gallery. ...
Dish with Green Splashed Decoration
Dish with Green Splashed Decoration
This green-splashed dish,represents the glazed luxury wares being produced in Abbasid Iraq by the late eighth to early ninth century. The rounded walls and slightly everted rim of ...