The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Mortar

Mortar

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Mortar

Date:: 900–950
Culture:: Syrian (?)
Medium:: Ivory
Dimensions:: Overall: 2 13/16 x 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 in. (7.1 x 10.7 x 8.6 cm)
Classification:: Ivories
Credit Line:: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917
Accession Number:: 17.190.233

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 304

Provenance

Dmitri Schevitch, Paris (sold 1906); his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (April 4–7, 1906, no. 137); J. Pierpont Morgan, London and New York (until 1917)
See also
What
Bone (6,371)

Ivory (5,396)

Mortar (80)
Where
Asia (68,271)

Syria (1,274)
When
A.D. 500-1000 (6,676)
In the Museum
Medieval Art (6,712)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
The Eastern Mediterranean, 500–1000 A.D.

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