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

Many of the objects that we collect in museums are ordinary things that would have been a part of people's everyday lives in the past. This does not mean they had to be plain. Some of them were so elegantly decorated that we consider them to be ‘works of art.'

However, they were created for a purpose. Can you guess what they were used for? How they were made? Can you imagine who might have owned these?