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Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Velvet and Silk Carpet

The Emperor's Carpet

Silk Animal Carpet

"Lotto" Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Five Medallion Carpet

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Carpet

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Floral Tent Panel

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Palampore

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Textile Fragment

Length of velvet

Mandala Base

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

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

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.

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

Green Tara

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).

Tile Panel

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.

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

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.

Book on Navigation

Quilt

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Pink and Rose

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Textile Fragment

Manjushri

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

Garden Gathering

Waistcoat

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

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.

Thanka with Buddha

Buddhist Deities

Textile

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Jewelry Elements

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Doublet

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

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

Tile Panel

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.

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

A Stallion

Icon of the Virgin and Child

Angel (Peri) Riding a Composite Camel

Krishna Fluting

Hinds House Window

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

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.

The Assembly of Tejaprabha Buddha

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.

Dagger-axe

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

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 Velvet Fragment with Tiger-Stripe and 'Cintamani' Design

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

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

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

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

Ragini Gaudi, Page from a Jaipur Ragamala Set

Peahen and hibiscus

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Corset

Belt clasp

The Infant Krishna Spirited Away by Vasudev, from a copy of the Dispersed Bhagavat Purana

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

Accordion

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Flowers and Goldfish

Set of Four Armchairs and Settee

Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

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

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

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.