Seated Jain Tirthankara, Solanki period (ca. 900–1250), ca. first half
11th century
India, Gujarat or Rajasthan
White marble; H. 38 7/8 in. (98.7 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 1992 (1992.131)

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From there, he sailed further westward through the Arabian Sea to the Persian Gulf. Returning to Iran, he delivered Princess Kökejin, whom he had helped escort from China to marry the ruler of the Ilkhanate. Upon their arrival, the Polos found, however, that the princess’s intended husband had died while the bridal party was en route. Once it was decided that Kökejin should marry her fiancée's successor, the Polo family was free to depart and at long last, continue by land home to Venice.