Image | Object | Date | Origin | Description | Materials | Used for |
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(larger) | Box | around 750 AD | Egypt | Rounded ivory box with a wooden lid and glided metal mounts. The lid and mounts were made at a much later date. | Elephant Ivory, Wood, Metal | Storage (probably) |
(larger) | Dish | around 850 AD | Iraq | Large flat dish with broad low flaring rim. | Earthenware, Clay | Unknown |
(larger) | Ewer | around 900 AD | Iran | Bronze cast ewer with an ovoid-shaped body on a low slanting foot. | Bronze | Holding and pouring liquids |
(larger) | Bowl | around 800 AD | Iraq | Earthenware bowl with an opaque white glaze. | Earthenware, Glaze | Unknown |
(larger) | Ewer | around 1200 | Afghanistan | Brass ewer with inlaid decoration. | Brass | Holding and pouring liquids |
(larger) | Storage Jar | around 1000 | Iran | Storage jar with turquoise glaze. | Earthenware, Glaze | Storage |
(larger) | Bowl | around 600 AD | Iraq | Thick walled glass bowl with honeycomb facet-cut. | Glass | Unknown |
(larger) | Fragment | around 1100 AD | Egypt | Band of finely woven cream coloured linen with silk embroidery. | Silk, Linen | Unknown |
(larger) | Bowl | around 900 AD | Iraq | Bowl with blue-painted geometric design and six triangles in a round loop. | Earthenware, Clay, Glaze | Unknown |
(larger) | Filter | around 1100 | Egypt | A filter to fit into the neck of a water bottle to keep out flies and dust, made to look like an elephant. | Earthenware | Keeping flies and dust out of water bottles |
(larger) | Dish | around 1000 | Uzbekistan | Small earthenware dish with Arabic writing around the edge saying: "Blessing and ease to the owner" | Earthenware, Glaze | Unknown |
(larger) | Bowl | around 850 AD | Iraq | Lustre painted bowl with an opaque white glaze, painted with a silver-rich lustre in yellow and copper. | Clay, Earthenware, Glaze, Lustre | Unknown |
(larger) | Ewer | around 1200 | Iran | Ceramic ewer shaped and painted like a rooster. | Ceramic, Glaze | Holding and pouring liquids |
(larger) | Fragment | around 1150 | Spain | Fragment of woven red and olive green silks with gold thread on a cream-coloured ground. | Silk, Metallic Thread | Unknown |
(larger) | Casket | around 1150 | Italy, Egypt | Wooden casket using ivory panels, with the base being a reused piece of earlier woodwork from around 1000 in Egypt. | Ivory, Wood, Silver | Same use as coffins |
(larger) | Capital | around 975 AD | Spain | Marble capital with a Kufic inscription. | Marble | Unknown |
(larger) | Bowl | around 900 AD | Iraq | Earthenware bowl with splashed decoration in green. | Earthenware, Glaze | Unknown |
(larger) | Filter | around 1200 | Egypt | A filter to fit into the neck of a water bottle to keep out flies and dust. | Clay, Earthenware | Keeping flies and dust out of water bottles |
(larger) | Flask | around 1200 | Syria | Moulded earthenware flask with damaged lip. | Earthenware | Holding liquid |
(larger) | Figure | around 1200 | Syria | Figurine of a bull with it's tail curled through his hind legs. | Fritware | Decoration (probably) |
(larger) | Bottle | around 975 AD | Egypt | Tubular rock crystal bottle. | Quartz Crystal | Unknown |
(larger) | Bowl | around 1000 | Uzbekistan | Earthenware bowl decorated with a black slip inscription. | Earthenware, Slip | Unknown |
(larger) | Bowl | around 1050 | Egypt | Rock crystal ewer with pear shaped body, beaked rim, and slightly splayed foot. | Quartz Crystal | Holding and pouring liquids |
All data on these artifacts comes from vam.ac.uk.