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Asian Art
Bowl with Courtiers and Elephants
12th - 13th century
Stonepast painted in luster on opaque white glaze
4 × 16 1/8 in. (10.1 × 41 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen
1955.51.17
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Iranian/Persian, Islamic
Period:
Seljuk (ca. 1037 - 1194) - Ilkhanid period (1256 - 1353)
Classification:
Containers - Ceramics
Provenance:
Dikran Kelekian (1868–1951), New York (bears label "Lent by Kelekian #29", "29" and partially visible, illegible label "Bardjurian"?; Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1955 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
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