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Silver-gilt bowl

Date: ca. 725–675 B.C.
Accession Number: 74.51.4554

Enthroned deity

Date: ca. 14th–13th century B.C.
Accession Number: 32.161.45

Seated goddess with a child

Date: ca. 14th–13th century B.C.
Accession Number: 1989.281.12

Dragon-handled Jug with Inscription

Date: late 15th– first quarter 16th century
Accession Number: 91.1.607

Blades and Mountings for a Pair of Swords (Daisho)

Long sword (katana) blade inscribed by Sukemitsu of Bizen (Japanese, Bizen, Muromachi period, active ca. 1440)

Date: long sword blade, dated 1440; short sword blade, 15th century; mountings, late 18th century
Accession Number: 36.120.417a, b, .418a–c

Emperor Xuanzong's Flight to Shu

Unidentified Artist

Date: mid-12th century
Accession Number: 41.138

"The Feast of Sada", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)

Date: ca. 1525
Accession Number: 1970.301.2

Clasp with an eagle and its prey

Date: ca. A.D. 1st–2nd century
Accession Number: 17.190.2055

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Date: early 9th century
Accession Number: 17.190.715a, b

Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves

Date: ca. 1550–70
Accession Number: 2000.424

"A King Offers to Make Amends to a Bereaved Mother", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (1253–1325)

Date: 1597–98
Accession Number: 13.228.26

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

Painting attributed to Bihzad (ca. 1450–1535/36)

Date: ca. 1480
Accession Number: 17.81.4

Plaque: winged creatures approaching stylized trees

Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C.
Accession Number: 54.3.5 and 62.78.1a, b

Wine Ewer with Design of Chrysanthemums and Paulownia Crests in Alternating Fields

Date: ca. 1596
Accession Number: 1980.6

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Date: ca. 1500–1100 B.C.
Accession Number: 63.74

Wang Xizhi Watching Geese

Qian Xuan (Chinese, ca. 1235–before 1307)

Date: ca. 1295
Accession Number: 1973.120.6

"Preparing Medicine from Honey", Folio from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of the Materia Medica of Dioscorides

'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl

Date: dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Accession Number: 57.51.21

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: dated A.H. 531/ A.D. 1137
Accession Number: 1996.238.2

Floral Tent Panel

Date: ca. 1635
Accession Number: 1981.321

"The Eavesdropper", Folio from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami

Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76)

Date: ca. 1430
Accession Number: 13.228.13.6

Goa Stone and Gold Case

Date: late 17th–early 18th century
Accession Number: 2004.244a–d

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

Inscribed by Ishiguro Masayoshi (Japanese, 1772–after 1851)

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 36.120.79

"Tahmuras Defeats the Divs", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)

Date: ca. 1525
Accession Number: 1970.301.3

"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)

Painting by Mustafa ibn Vali

Date: ca. 1595
Accession Number: 1994.141

"Shah Jahan on a Terrace, Holding a Pendant Set With His Portrait", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Painting by Chitarman (active ca. 1627–70)

Date: recto: 1627–28; verso: ca. 1530–50
Accession Number: 55.121.10.24

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: ca. 1180
Accession Number: 29.160.24

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

Date: ca. 5th century B.C.
Accession Number: 54.3.3

Damascus Room

Date: dated A.H. 1119/ A.D. 1707
Accession Number: 1970.170

"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)

Date: ca. 1530
Accession Number: 1970.301.51

The House of Bijapur

Painting by Kamal Muhammad (active 1680s)

Date: ca. 1680
Accession Number: 1982.213