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Dragon-Handled Jug with Inscription
early 16th century
- Medium
- Brass; cast and turned, engraved, and inlaid with silver, gold, and black organic compound
- Classification
- Metal
- Dimensions
- H. 5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm) Max. Diam. 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm) Diam. of Rim: 3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm) Diam. of base: 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
- Culture
- present-day Afghanistan
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
- Credit line
- Edward C. Moore Collection, Bequest of Edward C. Moore, 1891
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
