Bowl with Confronted peacocks , 925-975CE

wo Facing Peacocks Birds were a particularly popular subject in the Abbasid period, as artists in many media transformed the creatures’ beaks and wings into increasingly abstracted designs.
Original diam 30.5cms
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. 64.134

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