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Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Textile Fragment

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Carpet

Palampore

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Velvet and Silk Carpet

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

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Pink and Rose

Floral Tent Panel

Silk Kashan Carpet

Silk Animal Carpet

Waistcoat

Tile Panel

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Tile Panel

Set of Four Armchairs and Settee

Textile Fragment

Textile

Garden Gathering

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.

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

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

The Emperor's Carpet

Fragment textiel

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Length of velvet

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Birds and Flowers

Tile Panel

"Lotto" Carpet

Quilt

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.

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Grapevine in the Wind

Birds and Flowers

Fragment textiel

Hunting and fishing scenes

Chrysanthemums by the Water

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Peonies

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Doublet

Flowers and Grasses

Peahen and hibiscus

Cravat end

Insects and Flowers, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century, color on silk, Tokyo National Museum

Summer Flowers

Five Medallion Carpet

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Book on Navigation

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Grapevine

Iris and Grasshopper, from an untitled series of large flowers

Enclosed Valley

Robe à la française

Belt clasp

Coffre des pierreries de Louis XIV

Twee textielfragmenten op een blad, borduursel en druk op zijde

Iris, from The Picture Book of Realistic Paintings of Hokusai (Hokusai shashin gafu)

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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

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 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).

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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.

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Irises

Fragment textiel

Mandala Base

Flowers and Goldfish

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock

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.

Birds and Flowers

Morning Glories and Tree-frog, from an untitled series of Large Flowers

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Cloth with Procession of Figures

Corset

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

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.

Ewer

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Mount Fuji with Cherry Trees in Bloom

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

Terracotta kernos (vase for multiple offerings)

Icon of the Virgin and Child

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

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Paulownias and Chrysanthemums