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Tile Panel

Tile with Floral and Cloud-band Design

Carpet

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Palampore

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Textile Fragment

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

Garden Gathering

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Silk Kashan Carpet

Tile Panel

Mandala Base

Textile Fragment

"Lotto" Carpet

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.

Spiegellijst, beschilderd met vier allegorische vrouwenfiguren

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

Silk Animal Carpet

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Bottle with Birds and Peony Scroll

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Jar with Lion-Head Handles

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

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

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Five Medallion Carpet

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Ovoid jar with women with a yoke in scalloped panels

Pink and Rose

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Floral Tent Panel

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Wine Cup with Children at Play

Length of velvet

Ovoid covered jar with flower scrolls in lappet borders

The Emperor's Carpet

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

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.

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.

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

Covered cylindrical beaker with leaf-motif

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.

Frise des archers

Waistcoat

Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Quilt

Jar with wooden cover and two large flower groups

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Conical coffee pot with flowering lotus

Accordion

Manjushri

A Stallion

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.

Flowers and Goldfish

Hilma af Klint — The Ten Largest — Number 10 Old Age

Bowl with inscription and chrysanthemums and tortoiseshell decoration

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Green Tara

Textile

Buddhist Deities

Hanger in de vorm van een kruis

Bowl with Inscription, "Sovereignty is God's"

Belt clasp

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.

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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).

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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.

Jewelry Elements

Irises

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

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

Reukflacon

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

Flowers and Grasses

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

Cravat end

Blue Magpie on a Maple Branch

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.

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

A Messenger is Dispatched: Page from a Dispersed Manuscript

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Hunting Scene

Hanger in de vorm van een reukbal

Initial "P" (Primum quidem)

Tomb Guardian with Animal Head

Hanger met ruiter op postament

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Terracotta dinos (mixing bowl)

Dung-Chen