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Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Hanger in de vorm van een reukbal

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Silk Kashan Carpet

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Collection of Poems (Divan)

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.

Reukflacon

Lotus Dish

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Dung-Chen

Tile Panel

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Plate with Peony Decoration

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Jewelry Elements

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Potpourri vase (pot-pourri gondole)

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

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.

Center table

"Lotto" Carpet

Garden Gathering

Silk Animal Carpet

Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

The Emperor's Carpet

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Carpet

Covered cylindrical beaker with leaf-motif

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

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

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Jar with wooden cover and two large flower groups

Textile Fragment

Hanger in de vorm van een kruis

Book on Navigation

Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums

Tomb Guardian with Animal Head

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Lamp with Hanging Head Dragonfly Shade and Mosaic and Turtleback Base

Plaque with horned lion-griffins

Dagger-axe

Manjushri

Chrysanthemums by the Water

Headdress

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Green Tara

Vase with Golden Pheasants

Conical coffee pot with flowering lotus

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Tile Panel

Hen and Chicks Covered Tureen on Stand

Ovoid covered jar with flower scrolls in lappet borders

Hanger met ruiter op postament

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Tile Panel

Palampore

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Basin with Inscribed Figures and Calligraphy

Tea Table

This illuminated title page from Walters manuscript W.581 gives the title of the work, as well as the authors' names. There is also a statement referring to the patronage of the manuscript, indicating that it was made for the Mawlawi (Mevlevi) Library (bi-rasm al-Khizanah al-Karimah al-"Aliyah al-Mawlawiyah).

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

Table Fountain

Tánggǔ (堂鼓)

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Five Medallion Carpet

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Ghanti (bell)

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

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.

Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)

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

Ovoid covered jar with a woman reading a letter and finial in the shape of a shishi

A vase holding mostly white flowers sits on a floral-patterned cloth in this vertical still life painting. The ice-blue vase has a narrow foot, tall, slightly tapering sides, round shoulders, and a long neck flanked by handles. An ivory-white circle at the center could be a flower painted on the body. The flowers the vase holds are all pearl and snow white except for two golden yellow flowers and dark greenery. The cloth on which the vase sits is patterned with muted red and dark yellow flowers with green leaves against parchment white and earth brown. A few brown lines cutting across the bottom left corner of the painting could be the edge of a wooden table. Just behind the flowers, a cloth or curtain patterned with dark yellow, moss green, and spruce blue hangs against a teal-green wall, visible along each side of the composition. The objects are loosely painted and outlined with cobalt blue.

Pair of Candelabra

This is the final illuminated page in the codex, Walters W.582. The last panel contains the colophon, written in Riqa' script, giving the name of the scribe as Habib Allah ibn Dust Muhammad al-Khwarizmi.

Pendant in the form of a cock

Hanger in de vorm van een tak blauwe regen

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Oribe-Type Ewer

Watch

Thanka with Buddha

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Knife Sheath

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.

Portraits of Surinamese Girls

The top and bottom panels of this illuminated finispiece from Walters manuscript W.578 are inscribed with the basmalah and hamdalah in white Thuluth script. The Qur'anic verses in the central panel are written in Square Kufic.