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Carpet with Scrolling Vines and Blossoms

Silk Animal Carpet

Carpet with Palm Trees, Ibexes, and Birds

Silk Kashan Carpet

Five Medallion Carpet

"Lotto" Carpet

Carpet with Triple-Arch Design

Velvet and Silk Carpet

Carpet

Floral Tent Panel

Collection of Poems (Divan)

Tigers Chasing Deer, with Dragon

Length of velvet

Royal Carpet with Silk and Metal Thread

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.

Canopy with Dragon among Flowers

Buddhist Priest's Ceremonial Robe

Pichhwai for the Festival of Cows

Rectangular Textile Fragment

Ceremonial Hanging (Palepai)

Thangka with the Seventh Bodhisattva

Palampore

Silk Velvet Designed by 'Ghiyath'

Book on Navigation

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.

Mandala Base

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

Textile

Green Tara

Cover Panel for a Tihong

Tile Panel

Textile Fragment

Leaf from Album of Persian Calligraphy

"Black Buck", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Bridal Robe (Hwarot)

Velvet Panel with Flowering Plants

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.

Alexander the Great Enthroned at Persepolis

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

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.

Prince and Princess Hunting Blackbuck

Writing Box (Suzuribako) with Phoenix in Paulownia

Portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Dragon in foliage with lion and phoenix heads

Garden Gathering

Mirror with Phoenixes, Birds, Butterflies, and Floral Sprays

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Fragment (Dress Fabric)

Abhisarika Nayika (Heroine Running to Meet her Lover)

Ceremonial Cross of Countess Gertrude

Kast met het wapen Alberda

Waistcoat

Durga Slaying Mahisha

Portrait of a Ladakhi Mountain Goat

Young Woman Smoking a Huqqa

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.

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.

Icon of the Virgin and Child

Manuscript Cover with Prajnaparamita Attended by Sadakshari Lokeshvara and a Tara

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

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.

Quilt

Center table

Grapevine in the Wind

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

Belt clasp

Textile Fragment

Dagger-axe

This painting depicts three people seated side-by-side outdoors. The central person is a young, nude child with curly, reddish hair and a red beaded necklace, sitting on a red cushion. Their head is turned to the right. The woman on the left wears a white head covering, a sheer veil around her neck, a green dress, and a red cloak with floral designs. She holds the torso of the child and drapes a white cloth around its legs. The woman on the right has long, flowing reddish hair and wears a white dress or robe with gold detailing down the front, on the neckline, and on the wrists. She holds an open red book, and the child is turning one of the thin pages. All three people have pale skin. Above them, in the cloudy blue sky, there is a white dove with its wings outstretched, gold lines radiating from it. Above the dove, there is an image of a crowned bearded man with pale skin, wearing red robes and holding an orb. He is against a golden background with red dots that breaks through the pale clouds. The background shows a landscape with green trees, hills, and pale blue buildings.

Hinds House Window

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

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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

Peacocks and Bamboo

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

The Wade Cup with Animated Script

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).

Buddhist Deities

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.

Phoenixes and Paulownia

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

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.

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

Manjushri

Ensemble

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 Greedy Dog

Lions and Tigers in Peony and Bamboo

Tile Panel

Silk Velvet Fragment with Tiger-Stripe and 'Cintamani' Design

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

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Birds and Flowers

Cabinet

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

Peahen and hibiscus

A Virtuous Woman Placates the King by Plucking Out Her Eyes

A Stallion