Title: ‘Pilgrim Flask’
Date: 16th century
Location: Mughal India or the Deccan
Materials: cast brass
Dimensions: 30.5 x 30.5cm
Accession Number: MTW 1530
Other Notes:
With graceful handles recalling elephants’ trunks, the form of this flask probably derives from leather water skins. A leather vessel of this shape is depicted in an encampment scene from the copy of Safi ibn Vali’s Anis al-hujjaj in the Collection, painted circa 1677–80 [folio 15a; see MSS 1025].
Bibliography:
J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, cat.356, pp.300–01.
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