Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Ashmolean − Eastern Art Online, Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art

Browse: 2266 objects

Reference URL

Actions

Send e-mail

Contact us about this object

Send e-mail

Send to a friend

Vessel in the form of a turtle

  • Details

    Associated place
    AsiaIndia north India (place of creation)
    Date
    late 3rd century - early 2nd century BC
    Material and technique
    grey terracotta
    Dimensions
    9.5 x 19 x 19 cm max. (height x width x depth)
    Material index
    Object type index
    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Shirley Day, 1997.
    Accession no.
    EA1997.179
  • Further reading

    Ahuja, Naman, ‘Early Indian Art at the Ashmolean Museum - Catalogue in progress’, 2016, no. 140

Location

    • Ground floor | Room 12 | India to 600

Objects are sometimes moved to a different location. Our object location data is usually updated on a monthly basis. Contact the Jameel Study Centre if you are planning to visit the museum to see a particular object on display, or would like to arrange an appointment to see an object in our reserve collections.

 

© 2013 University of Oxford - Ashmolean Museum