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Casket (cofanetto or scrigno)
Italian, Venice
1575–1600
Stamp seal
Islamic
1st millennium CE
Candlestick inscribed with Wishes for Good Fortune, Peace, and Happiness to its Owner
ca. 1500
"Fairies Descend to the Chamber of Prince Manohar", Folio from a Gulshan-i 'Ishq (Rose Garden of Love)
ca. 1700
Portrait of Kuchal Oghlan: Folio from Salim's Album
Nanha
ca.1595–1600
Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden
ca. 1430
The House of Bijapur
Kamal Muhammad
ca. 1680
Male Papaya Tree
ca. 1790–1800
Pilgrim Flask
early 17th century
"Three Trees of India", Folio from a Baburnama (Autobiography of Babur)
late 16th century
A Stallion
Habiballah of Sava
ca. 1601–6
Munajat (Confidential Talks) of 'Ali ibn Abu-Talib
ca. 1200
"Muhammad's Call to Prophecy and the First Revelation", Folio from a Majma' al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories)
Hafiz-i Abru
ca. 1425
Book of Prayers, Surat al-Yasin and Surat al-Fath
Ahmad Nairizi
dated 1132 AH/1719–20 CE
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
12th–early 13th century
The Virgin and Child Attended by Angels
Manohar
ca 1600
Figure of Harpy
12th–early 13th century
Prince Riding Prancing Horse
late 16th century
"The Angel Gabriel meets 'Amr ibn Zaid (the Shepherd)", Folio from a Siyer-i Nebi (the Life of the Prophet)
Mustafa ibn Vali
ca. 1595
Miniature Qur'an and Qur'an Case
Muhammad Al-Qari
dated 963 AH/1555 CE
"Siyavush Displays his Skill at Polo before Afrasiyab," Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
dated 741 AH/1341 CE
Portrait of a Dervish
16th century
"Sakyamuni (Buddha) Announces Another Prophet", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories)
Hafiz-i Abru
ca. 1425
"Oxen amongst Foliage", Folio from a Manafi' al-Hayawan (On the Usefulness of Animals) of Ibn Bakhtishu'
Ibn Bakhtishu'
1297–99
Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems) of Jajarmi
Muhammad ibn Badr al-Din Jajarmi
dated 741 AH/1341 CE
Portrait of Muhammad Khan Shaibani, the Uzbek (d.1510)
16th century
Princely Couple
1400–1405
"Adam Makes a Pilgrimage", Folio from a Majma al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Histories)
Hafiz-i Abru
ca. 1425
"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
dated 621 AH/1224 CE
"Elias and Khizr at the Fountain of Life', Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
late 15th century
A Sufi Sage, After the European Personification of Melancholia (Dolor)
Farrukh Beg
dated 1615
Bustan (Orchard) of Sa'di
Sa'di
dated 936 AH/1529 CE with later additions
Miniature Qur'an with Lacquered Binding and Carrying Case
19th century
Talismanic Scroll
11th century
Portrait of Sultan Mustafa I (r. 1617–18; 1622–23)
late 17th–early 18th century
Two Youths Romping
late 16th century
Qur'an Manuscript
late 18th–early 19th century
Palanquin Finials with Lotuses
ca. 1650–80
Study of a Bird
Riza-yi 'Abbasi
dated 1043 AH/1634 CE
Wedding Procession of Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah
ca. 1650