The Freer Canteen
Lancer and two mounted crossbowmen on the base.

Lancer and two mounted crossbowmen on the base of the Freer Canteen, Ayyubid Mosul, early 13th century.

Photograph 15a. Details of horsemen in combat on an oversized, inlaid brass flask known as the Freer Canteen, probably Mosul, early thirteenth century (Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA, inv. no. 41.10).
Source: p.85, "The Iconography of a Military Elite: Military Figures on an Early Thirteenth-Century Candlestick" by David Nicolle, in Mamlūk Studies Review, 2014-2015

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The Freer Canteen Lancer and two mounted crossbowmen on the base.

The Freer Canteen
Lancer and two mounted crossbowmen on the base.