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Middle East
Feline perfume-burner, 11th century, Khorasan or Central Asia

Main article: mabkhara

Early Middle Eastern vessels are usually called perfume burners, and had no specific religious function, but were widely used in houses. Animal shapes, often lynx or other cats, in bronze or brass with openwork bodies are found from the 11th century until the Mongol conquests of the 13th century. A wide variety of other types were used at different times.

Incense burners were used in different places across the Islamic world, especially common in what is now Iran and Iraq.