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Vessel with six animal friezes

Date: ca. 10th–8th century B.C.
Accession Number: 64.257.1a, b

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees

Date: ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium B.C.
Accession Number: 17.190.106

Head of a ruler

Date: ca. 2300–2000 B.C.
Accession Number: 47.100.80

Armlet

Date: first half 11th century
Accession Number: 57.88a–c

Plaque with horned lion-griffins

Date: ca. 6th–4th century B.C.
Accession Number: 54.3.2

The Anhalt Medallion Carpet

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

Princely Figure with Jewelled Crown

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

Striding figure with ibex horns, a raptor skin draped around the shoulders, and upturned boots

Date: ca. 3000 B.C.
Accession Number: 2007.280

Bowl with a Lute Player

Date: late 12th–early 13th century
Accession Number: 57.61.16

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: ca. 1180
Accession Number: 29.160.23

Spouted jar

Date: ca. 9th century B.C.
Accession Number: 60.20.15

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

Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)

Date: ca. 1600
Accession Number: 63.210.11

Kitab suwar al-kawakib al-thabita (Book of the Images of the Fixed Stars) of al-Sufi

`Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (903–86)

Date: late 15th century
Accession Number: 13.160.10

Strand of Beads

Date: 9th–12th century
Accession Number: 48.101.70

Animal-Spouted Pitcher

Date: 9th–10th century
Accession Number: 38.40.247

Dado Panel

Date: 20th century
Accession Number: 37.40.46

Woven Tapestry Fragment

Date: mid-8th century
Accession Number: 50.83

Cup with a frieze of gazelles

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

Textile

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

Pen Box (Qalamdan) Depicting Shah Isma'il in a Battle against the Uzbeks

Date: early 19th century
Accession Number: 2006.523a, b

Sword and scabbard

Date: ca. 7th century A.D.
Accession Number: 65.28a, b

Lantern for a Lamp

Date: 9th–10th century
Accession Number: 39.40.87

The Lovers

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

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

Velvet with Figural Imagery

Date: mid-16th century
Accession Number: 52.20.11

Bowl with wheel-cut facets

Date: ca. 6th–7th century A.D.
Accession Number: 59.34

Tombak

Date: late 19th century
Accession Number: 89.4.1310

Relief: two servants bearing food and drink

Date: ca. 358–338 B.C.
Accession Number: 34.158

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

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

"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

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

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