Objects We Love: Freer Beaker @NatAsianArt
Objects We Love: Freer Beaker  @NatAsianArt
Uploaded May 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
Join Massumeh Farhad for a look at a seven-hundred-year-old drinking cup that tells a great Persian love story, also included in a slightly different version in the "Shahnama" (Book of Kings).

Learn more about this beaker (F1928.2) on the museum's website: https://asia.si.edu/object/F1928.2/
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Objects We Love: Freer Beaker

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