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Standing man

Date: ca. A.D. 2nd century
Accession Number: 51.72.1

"Dancing Dervishes", Folio from a Divan of Hafiz

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

Date: ca. 1480
Accession Number: 17.81.4

Marble Portrait Bust of a Woman with a Scroll

Date: late 4th–early 5th century
Accession Number: 66.25

Buddha, Probably Amitabha

Date: early 7th century
Accession Number: 19.186

Standing male worshiper

Date: ca. 2900–2600 B.C.
Accession Number: 40.156

Cuneiform tablet case impressed with two cylinder seals, for cuneiform tablet 66.245.5a: record of a lawsuit

Date: ca. 20th–19th century B.C.
Accession Number: 66.245.5b

Headdress

Date: ca. 2600–2500 B.C.
Accession Number: 33.35.3

Cuneiform tablet: administrative account of barley distribution with cylinder seal impression of a male figure, hunting dogs, and boars

Date: ca. 3100–2900 B.C.
Accession Number: 1988.433.1

Silk Animal Carpet

Date: second half 16th century
Accession Number: 14.40.721

Furniture fragment with the "woman at the window"

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 57.80.12

Dragon Wrapped around Saz Leaves

Date: ca. 1550–70
Accession Number: 2000.424

Jain Svetambara Tirthankara in Meditation

Date: first half of the 11th century
Accession Number: 1992.131

Armor (Yoroi)

Date: early 14th century
Accession Number: 14.100.121b–e

Qur'an Manuscript

Date: dated A.H. 1268/A.D. 1851–52
Accession Number: 1980.603

Textile

Date: 10th–11th century
Accession Number: 31.106.64

Plate with a hunting scene from the tale of Bahram Gur and Azadeh

Date: ca. 5th century A.D.
Accession Number: 1994.402

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: ca. 1180
Accession Number: 29.160.23

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

Date: probably first half 16th century
Accession Number: 46.128

House Post (Tomor)

Date: 19th–early 20th century
Accession Number: 1995.65.2

"Akbar With Lion and Calf", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album

Painting by Govardhan (active ca. 1596–1645)

Date: verso: ca. 1630; recto: ca. 1530–50
Accession Number: 55.121.10.22

Ghanti

Date: last half 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.154

"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

The Lovers

Painting by Riza-yi `Abbasi (ca. 1565–1635)

Date: dated A.H. 1039/ A.D. 1630
Accession Number: 50.164

Part of a petticoat

Date: mid-to third quarter 18th century
Accession Number: 1992.82

Weight in shape of frog

Date: ca. 2000–1600 B.C.
Accession Number: 1988.301

'Saz'-style Drawing of a Dragon amid Foliage

Shah Quli (active 1520–66)

Date: ca. 1540–50
Accession Number: 57.51.26

Suzu

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 89.4.94

Man carrying a box, possibly for offerings

Date: ca. 2900–2600 B.C.
Accession Number: 55.142

Emperor Xuanzong's Flight to Shu

Unidentified Artist

Date: mid-12th century
Accession Number: 41.138

Vessel terminating in the forepart of a fantastic leonine creature

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

Openwork plaque with an oryx eating a plant beside a tree

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 58.31.3

Princely Figure with Jewelled Crown

Date: mid-11th–mid-12th century
Accession Number: 67.119

Standard with two long-horned bulls

Date: ca. 2300–2000 B.C.
Accession Number: 55.137.5

Panel with Peonies and Butterfly

Date: late 14th–15th century
Accession Number: 1987.277

Mi-gyaung

Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.1473

Cosmological Mandala with Mount Meru

Date: 14th century
Accession Number: 1989.140

Panel with the god Zeus/Serapis/Ohrmazd and worshiper

Date: ca. 3rd century A.D.
Accession Number: 2000.42.2

Emperor's Twelve-Symbol Robe

Date: 18th century
Accession Number: 54.14.2

Cup with a frieze of gazelles

Date: ca. early 1st millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 62.84

The House of Bijapur

Painting by Kamal Muhammad (active 1680s)

Date: ca. 1680
Accession Number: 1982.213

Openwork plaque with sphinxes

Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 57.80.4a, b

Standing Hari-Hara

Date: late 7th–early 8th century
Accession Number: 1977.241

Flower-Style Box with Drawers

Date: 17th century
Accession Number: 1976.176.1

Calligraphic Galleon

'Abd al-Qadir Hisari

Date: dated A.H. 1180/ A.D. 1766–67
Accession Number: 2003.241

Altarpiece Dedicated to Buddha Maitreya

Date: dated 524
Accession Number: 38.158.1a–n

Shiva and Parvati Playing Chaupar: Folio from a Rasamanjari Series

Devidasa of Nurpur (active ca. 1680–ca. 1720)

Date: dated 1694–95
Accession Number: 57.185.2

Dish with Design of Three Jars

Date: 1680–90s
Accession Number: 1975.268.563

Runner in the City

El Lissitzky (Russian, Pochinok 1890–1941 Moscow)

Date: ca. 1926
Accession Number: 1987.1100.47

Tribute bearer with an oryx, a monkey, and a leopard skin

Date: ca. 8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 60.145.11

Dish in the Shape of a Leaf

Date: late 7th–early 8th century
Accession Number: 1974.268.11