*Perfume burner handle completed with a lynx protome, Eastern Iran, 11th-12th centuryMolded copper alloy, baluster body completed with a lynx protome stuck on its two front legs, openwork chest and mouth, ears completed with incised plant decoration. Length : 18,6 cmFouling , a perforation, a broken paw glued back together, probable jumps of inlay on the eyes . For a comparison, see Geza Fehérvari, Islamic Metalwork of the Eight to the Fifteenth Century in the Keir Collection, London, 1976, plate 38, 38c, n°114.