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Silk Animal Carpet

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

The Emperor's Carpet

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Silk Kashan Carpet

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

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

"Lotto" Carpet

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

Palampore

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Textile Fragment

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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.

Five Medallion Carpet

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

The Greedy Dog

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

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).

Set of Four Armchairs and Settee

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

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.

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Garden Gathering

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

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

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

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

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

Textile

Hunting Scene

Cloth with Procession of Figures

Quilt

Tile Panel

Mandala Base

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.

Rustam's seventh course: He kills the White Div, folio 124 from a Shah-nama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (Persian, about 934–1020)

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.

Icon of the Virgin and Child

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

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.

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Pink and Rose

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

Leaf from Book of Hours

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Flowers and Goldfish

Green Tara

Cranes on snow-covered pine

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Hunting and fishing scenes

Durga Slaying Mahisha

"The Funeral of Isfandiyar," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)

Waistcoat

This folio from Walters manuscript W.677 depicts Bahram Gur in a peasant's house.

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Tile Panel

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Tile Panel

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

Thanka with Buddha

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.

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Birds and Flowers

This folio from Walters manuscript W.596 depicts the fall of Samarqand.

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Manjushri

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Textile Fragment

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.

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

Floral Tent Panel

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.

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Cravat end

Krishna's Fifth and Sixth Avatars, page from a copy of the Gitagovinda of Jayaveda

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

Belt clasp

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Peahen and hibiscus

Grapevine in the Wind

Peonies

The Flood of Noah (Genesis 7:11-24)

Ewer