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Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Flask
Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

Flask

DepartmentIslamic Art
Date8th century A.D.
MediumGlass
Dimensions4 5/16 × 3 9/16 in. (11 × 9.1 cm)
Credit LineSan Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Object number96.1.193
Geography
Place madeIraq or Iran
DescriptionFree-blown flask of yellow glass. High-bellied piriform body with short, cylindrical, lobed neck and flattened rim. Added disc foot, with slightly hollow base; tool mark visible in center. Wheel cut decoration consisting of discs of different sizes, in two rows staggered around body.ProvenanceFrances Semaan Wilkins (1916-1999) and Frederick J. Wilkins (1916-2004), San Antonio, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1996
Not on view
Collections
San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
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Culture: Roman
1st half of 1st century A.D.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
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7th-8th century A.D.
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Sprinkler bottle
Culture: Roman
3rd-4th century A.D.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Perfume Flask in the form of a Donkey or Goat
7th-8th century
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Qumqum (perfume sprinkler)
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Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Small bottle
6th-8th century A.D.
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Perfume Flask
9th-10th century A.D.
San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Jug
10th century
Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection.
Miniature Flask
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Perfume or oil bottle
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