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Birds and Flowers
Birds and Flowers
Irises
Buddhist Deities
Famous Views of Ōmi
Hunting Scene
Phoenixes and Paulownia
Vase of Flowers
Gibbons in a Landscape
The setting for the painting is the royal stables in Isfahan. The upper portion of the scene consists of a platform on which are gathered the shah, or Persian king, who appears next to the column on the right; five kneeling courtiers; and various attendants serving fruit and wine. The king is identified in the artist’s signature at the upper left as Shah ‘Abbas II, who died in 1666, but it is possible that the undated painting was executed after his death. The ruler’s status is emphasized by his golden halo and by the opulent gold and jeweled vessels placed before him. The lower portion shows a roundup of horses who bear the trident-like royal brand on their flanks; they move in a spiral that coils counterclockwise from the upper right. The scene bursts with energy and looks chaotic—a brawl is taking place at the lower left—but the courtiers and handlers seem to be getting control of the animals. The figures on the platform, meanwhile, pay no attention to the commotion below. The painting represents a new journalistic, even anecdotal approach to Persian painting introduced in the second half of the seventeenth century. The viewer gets the sense that the work may record a specific moment in daily life at court and that it was observed firsthand. Figures no longer conform to stock types but are highly individualized by facial features and dress. Standing just to the right of center in the upper part of the roundup scene is a man wearing a gold, fur-lined, armless jacket. He holds a list and is writing notes while conferring with a young man in a blue robe. The man taking notes may well be the supervisor of the royal stud, one of whose responsibilities was to inspect the king’s stables and keep an inventory of the animals.
Peacocks and Bamboo
Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe
Chrysanthemums by a Stream
Autumn Maples with Poem Slips
Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain
Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy
Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo
Repository for the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra and Eleven Volumes of the Great Perfection of Wisdom Sutra
Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges)
Vase of Flowers with Grasshopper, Marine Life, and Garden Rock
Birds and Flowers
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.
Grapevine in the Wind
Flowers and Grasses
The Four Seasons
The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha
Winter and Summer Flowers
Flowers and Trees of the Four Seasons (left screen)
Winter Scene with Plum Trees and Pheasants
Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons
Bridal Robe (Hwarot)
Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva
Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon
Ōtsu-e of a Youth Holding Irises (Yarō)
Collection of Poems (Divan)
Flowers and Goldfish
Cabinet
Canopy with Dragon among Flowers
Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia
Ivy Lane
Summer Flowers
Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows
Paulownias and Chrysanthemums
Peahen and hibiscus
Birds and Flowers
慈眼大師像
Cover Panel for a Tihong
European Banquet Scene (or The Marriage Feast at Cana?)
Spring and Autumn Farming (Autumn)
Painting from Flowers and Grasses
"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album
Maharana Amar Singh II with Ladies of the Zenana outside the Picture Hall at Rajnagar
Puppies
The Banker's Table
Mandarin ducks and cotton rose hibiscus
Fire Screen
screen by Fukae Roshu "Narrow ivy road". Six-fold screen, color on gold leafed paper, Important Cultural Property
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.
Portrait of the Great Master Yeongwoldang Eungjin
Silk Animal Carpet
Mandala of the Three Shrines at Kumano
Four Motifs from the Eight Views of Xiao-Xiang
Tánggǔ (堂鼓)
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.
Mount Asama, byobu by Aodo Denzen, Tokyo National Museum, Japan
Thanka with Buddha
Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis
Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara
Book on Navigation
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
Camellia by Water
Chrysanthemums by the Water
Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat
Carpet
Fish in a Lotus Pond
"Lotto" Carpet
Sixteenth Arhat, Cūḍapanthaka (from the Sixteen Arhats)
Summer Night
Carpet with Triple-Arch Design
Scholar admiring plum blossoms
Armor (Gusoku)
Fragment textiel
Textile Fragment
Birds and Flowers
Monkeys in a Cherry Tree
Grapevine
Floral Tent Panel
Jar with Lion-Head Handles
Accordion
Lakeside Retreat
Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms
Velvet and Silk Carpet
Night Rain at the Double-Shelf Stand, from the series Eight Parlor Views (Zashiki hakkei)
牡丹花肖柏像(重要文化財、東京国立博物館蔵)
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.
A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript
Cabinet
Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa
Vasant Ragini: Folio from a ragamala series (Garland of Musical Modes)
Insects and Flowers, Ming dynasty, 14th-15th century, color on silk, Tokyo National Museum