Bucket with Running Animals

11th-12th century

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

On this bucket made during the Islamic period, animals run across an elaborate floral scroll, motifs originating in the Byzantine era. The inscriptions in Arabic offer auspicious wishes typical of the era: "Glory and prosperity and auspiciousness and health and felicity and victory and divine grace and magnificence."

Artwork Details

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Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Exhibition History

Title: Bucket with Running Animals
Date: 11th-12th century
Geography: Made in Eastern Mediterranean
Medium: Brass, cast and engraved; handle cast separately and hammered into shape
Dimensions: H: 5 7/8 in. (15 cm); diam: 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm)
Classification: Metalwork
Credit Line: The British Museum, London (1953,0217.1)
Curatorial Department: Medieval Art and The Cloisters