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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

A Disconsolate Lady on a Terrace with Attendants

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

Velvet and Silk Carpet

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.

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.

Silk Animal Carpet

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

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

Krishna Fluting

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.

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 Stallion

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

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

Grapevine in the Wind

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

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

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.

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).

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Peahen and hibiscus

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

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

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

Walters manuscript W.620 has a brown leather blind-stamped binding with a flap. The binding is decorated with a central oval medallion and pendants. This binding is not original to the manuscript.

Maharana Bhim Singh in Procession

Book on Navigation

Textile

Durga Slaying Mahisha

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Monkey Hanging on to a Branch

Fragment van een muurschildering

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

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.

Ingelijste muurschildering voorstellende Xiwangmu en dienaressen

On this folio from Walters manuscript W.604, King Qizil Arslan welcomes the poet Nizami.

The Emperor's Carpet

Tile Panel

A Monumental Portrait of a Monkey

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

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

The Greedy Dog

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

A Young Prince on Horseback

Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr

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.

Thanka with Buddha

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

Belt clasp

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

The Young Emperor Akbar Arrests the Insolent Shah Abu’l-Maali, Page from a Manuscript of the Akbarnama

Interieur van een timmermanswerkplaats

Peonies

Study for the Nude Youth over the Prophet Daniel (recto); Figure Studies for the Sistine Ceiling (verso)

Portrait of Prince Sur Singh Rathor of Bikaner (1594–1631)

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

Carpet

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

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Al-Mu'tazz Sends Gifts to Abdulla ibn Abdulla, from a copy of the Tarikh-i Alfi

Japan; Illustrated book; Illustrated Books

Asavari Ragini, page from a Garland of Musical Ragas (Ragamala) Set

Buddhist Deities

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

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

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

Palampore

Krishna with an Ascetic

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Textile Fragment

Grafmonument met alliantiewapen en vier kwartierwapens

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Heer Ranjha: Lady with Water Jug on her Head and Lady Holding out her Arms, Jodhpur school, India, c. mid-18th century, opaque watercolor on paper, Tokyo National Museum

Farmhouse on the Slope of a Hill

Friends of Krishna, folio 163 from a Bhakti Ratnavali of Vishnu Puri

Manuchehr Kills Tur, Manuscript from Shahnama

Green Tara

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

Hunting Scene

Ruler Entertained by Dancers in a Paradise Garden

Birds and Flowers

John F. Gray

Silk Kashan Carpet

Pradyumna and Samvara fight with maces, from the "Large Basohli Bhagavata Purana"