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The Emperor's Carpet

Silk Animal Carpet

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Carpet

Velvet and Silk Carpet

"Lotto" Carpet

Silk Kashan Carpet

Five Medallion Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Floral Tent Panel

Velvet Fragment with Design from Nizami of Ganja's Khusrau and Shirin

Palampore

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Length of velvet

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

This drawing, Walters manuscript leaf W.749, was executed in Safavid Iran, most probably in the late 10th century AH/AD 16th, in Qazvin or Isfahan. Above, a farmer plows; below, a seated young man watches a produce seller weigh his purchase. On the rocks in the center foreground is inscribed the name of one of the most famous painters in Iran in the 11th century AH/AD 17th, Riza 'Abbasi (active 1001-1044 AH/AD 1591-1592 to 1634). As the handwriting does not match that of the artist, an admirer of Riza's work seems to have attributed the drawing to him. The execution and the bucolic subject matter of this drawing relate closely to the oeuvre of the Persian artist Muhammadi Haravi (active late 10th century AH/AD 16th), who worked in Qazvin. It is possible that this composition was conceived as a manuscript page.

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Textile Fragment

Gathering at Lanting (Orchid Pavilion)

Walters manuscript W.619 is an illuminated manuscript containing 2 works by Sa"di (died 691 AH/AD 1292): the Gulistan (Rose garden) and the Bustan (Orchard). It was copied in 980 AH/AD 1572 by Muhammad Riza al-Tabrizi in Iran. The text of the Gulistan appears in the main area, while that of the Bustan is inscribed obliquely around the main text area on three sides. Both texts are written in black and gold nasta"liq script. The margins are multi-colored, gold-sprinkled tinted or marbled paper. The original leather binding dates to the 10th century AH/AD 16th and has dentelle-style decorated boards and doublures with gold filigree work over a multi-colored ground of blue, green, red, and black.

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Textile Fragment

Green Tara

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Tile Panel

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Set of Four Armchairs and Settee

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Textile

Cravat end

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

"The Concourse of the Birds", Folio 11r from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Garden Gathering

Hunting and fishing scenes

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Mandala Base

Zal Climbing to Rudaba, page from a copy of the Shahnama of Firdausi

A Procession Scene with Musicians, from a copy of the Padshanama

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Birds and Flowers

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Book on Navigation

This folio from Walters manuscript W.580 is the left side of an illuminated double-page frontispiece of geometric design in gold, red, blue, and green, with a marginal rosette at the left.

Hunting near Hartenfels Castle

Leaf from Book of Hours

Bahram Gur Arrives at the House of a Merchant, text page (recto); Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Birds and Flowers

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Quilt

Four Portraits from the St. Petersburg Album. Painters unknown, borders by Muhammad Sadiq. Top left: Nadir Shah, Iran, ca. 1740. Top right: Adil Shah, Iran, ca. 1748. Bottom left: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Bottom right: Unidentified nobleman, Mughal school, 18th century. Art Institute of Chicago 1919.952 recto

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.653, a middle-aged woman stands in a landscape, holding a vase of flowers. The salmon pink margins are stenciled with animal and floral forms. The catchword at the lower left indicates that the following folio is missing.

This painting depicts three people seated side-by-side outdoors. The central person is a young, nude child with curly, reddish hair and a red beaded necklace, sitting on a red cushion. Their head is turned to the right. The woman on the left wears a white head covering, a sheer veil around her neck, a green dress, and a red cloak with floral designs. She holds the torso of the child and drapes a white cloth around its legs. The woman on the right has long, flowing reddish hair and wears a white dress or robe with gold detailing down the front, on the neckline, and on the wrists. She holds an open red book, and the child is turning one of the thin pages. All three people have pale skin. Above them, in the cloudy blue sky, there is a white dove with its wings outstretched, gold lines radiating from it. Above the dove, there is an image of a crowned bearded man with pale skin, wearing red robes and holding an orb. He is against a golden background with red dots that breaks through the pale clouds. The background shows a landscape with green trees, hills, and pale blue buildings.

Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)

Icon of the Virgin and Child

Tile Panel

This page from Walters manuscript W.674 bears 4 diplomas written within illuminated cartouches inscribed in ijazah script by the following master calligraphers: Yaziji zadah, Isma'il al-Zuhdi Katib al-Saray al-Sultani, Muhammad Hasib, and 'Ali al-Wasfi. The page is dated 1219 AH/AD 1804-1805.

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Lontslotmusket met vuursteenslot uit latere periode

Silk Velvet Fragment with Tiger-Stripe and 'Cintamani' Design

This illustration from Walters manuscript W.644 depicts Zulaykha in a blue-domed litter on a camel led by a cameleer. The retinue is entering the capital of Egypt.

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

The Greedy Dog

Dung-Chen

Peahen and hibiscus

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Grapevine in the Wind

Thanka with Buddha

Woman Addressing a Peacock: Gujari Ragini of Megh, from a Ragamala

Tile Panel

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Fire Screen

Flowers and Goldfish

Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

Center table

Kichik Beg Wounded during Babur's Attack on Qalat, from a copy of the Baburnama (Book of Babur)

A Young Prince on Horseback

Peonies

Phoenixes and Paulownia

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Gibbons in a Landscape

Belt clasp

Buddhist Deities