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Collection of Poems (Divan)

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.

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

The Emperor's Carpet

Coffre des pierreries de Louis XIV

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Silk Kashan Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Mandala Base

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Floral Tent Panel

Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Silk Animal Carpet

"Lotto" Carpet

Textile Fragment

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

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 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.

Birds and Flowers

Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Textile

Five Medallion Carpet

Grapevine in the Wind

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

Leaf from Book of Hours

Tile Panel

Carpet

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Knife Sheath

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain

Covered box decorated with chrysanthemums and waterfowl among lotus

Cape

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

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.

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Garden Gathering

Cabinet

Peacocks and Bamboo

Length of velvet

Belt clasp

Phoenixes and Paulownia

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

The Adoration of the Magi

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Birds and Flowers of the Four Seasons

Rosewater ewer

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Cosmetics Box with Chrysanthemums

Charles II of Valois, duke of Orléans.

An Old Sufi Laments His Lost Youth

A Stallion

Center table

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Foliate-Shaped Tray with Mother-of-Pearl Inlay

Fire Screen

A Young Prince on Horseback

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

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

Gedicht op de zilveren bruiloft van Ludolph Simon de With en Maria de Wit, 15 augustus 1771

Birds and Flowers

The Greedy Dog

Peahen and hibiscus

Books and Scholars’ Accoutrements

Beroemde blikken op de Oostelijke hoofdstad

Jewelry Elements

Saint in Red Cloak

Schetsen van Hokusai - deel 5

Hinds House Window

Lakeside Retreat

Green Tara

Buddhist Deities

Denshin kaishu Hokusai manga nihen