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Jar Depicting Three Spirited Peacock
, Second half 10th century
Birds were a particularly popular subject in the Abbasid period, as artists in many media attempted to render the creatures’ beaks and wings in increasingly abstracted designs.
Original height 16.2cms
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 50.207