1. Bahram Gur Hunting Onagers with Fitna, Page from the Haft paykar (Seven Portraits), from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (d. 1209)

Creator:

Nizami

Date:

1495

Time period:

Turkman

Medium:

Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, and gold on paper

Extent:

4 x 4 1/16 in. (10.2 x 10.3 cm)

2. Bahram Gur Hunting Onagers with Fitna, Page from the Haft paykar (Seven Portraits), from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami (d. 1209)

Creator:

Nizami

Date:

second half 15th century

Time period:

Timurid

Medium:

Opaque watercolors, ink, and gold on paper

Extent:

Sheet: 1/2 x 6 5/8 in. (1.3 x 16.8 cm)

3. Band Fragment with Figural and Botanical Decoration

Creator:

Coptic

Date:

8th century C.E. or later

Time period:

Umayyad Period or later

Medium:

Flax, wool

Extent:

20 1/2 x 4 in. (52.1 x 10.2 cm)

4. Bowl with Lotus Blossoms

Date:

15th century

Medium:

Ceramic; fritware, painted in cobalt blue under a transparent glaze; some iridescence

Extent:

4 x 8 5/8 in. (10.2 x 21.9 cm)

5. Cylinder Seal

Date:

ca. 3100-2675 B.C.E. or 19th century C.E.

Time period:

Early Dynastic Period or Modern Period

Medium:

Steatite

Extent:

3/4 x 11/16 in. (1.9 x 1.8 cm)

6. Drunken Son of a Cobbler Mounted on Bahram Gur's Lion, Folio from an Illustrated Shahnama Manuscript

Date:

ca. 1480-1490

Medium:

Ink and opaque watercolors on paper

Extent:

Sheet: 12 x 8 in. Image: 4 1/2 x 5 in.

7. Egypto-Arabic Textile found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Block-printed cotton

Extent:

14 3/4 x 11 1/4 in. (37.5 x 28.5 cm)

8. Egypto-Arabic Textile found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Block-printed cotton

Extent:

10 5/8 x 9 7/16 in. (27 x 24 cm)

9. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Braid

Date:

13th-15th century

Time period:

Mamluk Period

Medium:

Wool, ribbed cloth

Extent:

4 5/16 x 5 1/2 in. (11 x 14 cm)

10. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Carpet Fragment

Date:

13th-15th century

Time period:

Mamluk Period

Medium:

Brocaded ribbed cloth

Extent:

96 1/2 x 48 7/8 in. (245.1 x 124.1 cm)

11. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Fostat Fragment found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Silk embroidery on linen

Extent:

8 1/4 x 3 15/16 in. (21 x 10 cm)

12. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Fostat Print found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Block-printed cotton

Extent:

13 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (35 x 41 cm)

13. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Fostate Print found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Printed cotton

Extent:

3 1/8 x 8 1/4 in. (8 x 21 cm)

14. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Fostate Print found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Printed cotton

Extent:

6 5/16 x 5 1/8 in. (16 x 13 cm) storage (stored framed. kept flat): 1 1/2 × 10 × 11 in. (3.8 × 25.4 × 27.9 cm)

15. Egypto-Arabic Textile, Hanging or Coverlet found in Egypt

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Printed cotton

Extent:

17 5/16 x 6 11/16 in. (44 x 17 cm)

16. Fatimid Weight

Date:

13th-15th century

Time period:

Fatimid Period

Medium:

Translucent glass

Extent:

3/16 x 7/8 in. (0.4 x 2.2 cm)

17. Fatimid Weight

Date:

13th-15th century

Time period:

Fatimid Period

Medium:

Opaque glass

Extent:

3/16 x 13/16 in. (0.5 x 2 cm)

18. Folio from a "Shahnameh": A King and a Visitor with Attendants

Date:

late 15th-early 16th century

Time period:

Turkman

Medium:

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Extent:

9 1/2 x 5 7/16in. (24.1 x 13.8cm)

19. Folio of Poetry From the Divan of Sultan Husayn Mirza

Creator:

Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi

Date:

ca. 1490

Geographic region:

Herat, Afghanistan

Time period:

Timurid

Medium:

Ink, opaque watercolors, and gold on indigo blue ground, with découpage and gold-flecked border

Extent:

8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in. (22.5 x 13.3 cm)

20. Folio of Text from a "Khamseh" of Nizami

Creator:

Nizami

Date:

ca. 1481

Time period:

Turkman

Medium:

Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Extent:

4 x 4 1/6 in. (10.2 x 10.3 cm)

21. Fostat Textile Fragment

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Printed cotton

Extent:

19 11/16 x 23 5/8 in. (50 x 60 cm)

22. Fostat Textile Fragment

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Printed cotton

Extent:

9 1/16 x 9 13/16 in. (23 x 25 cm)

23. Fragment of a Tunic

Date:

12th-15th century

Medium:

Printed Cotton

Extent:

19 11/16 x 13 3/4 in. (50 x 35 cm)

24. Gushtasp Slaying the Dragon, Page from an Illustrated Manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Date:

ca. 1482

Time period:

Turkman

Medium:

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Extent:

13 x 8 1/2 in. (32.5 x 21.3 cm)

25. Mamluk Carpet

Date:

late 15th-early 16th century

Medium:

Wool

Extent:

78 1/4 x 51 1/4 in. (198.8 x 130.2 cm)

26. Manuscript of the Qur'an

Date:

A.H. 889/1484 C.E.

Medium:

Ink, opaque watercolors, and gold on paper

Extent:

Paper: 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (9.5 x 9.5 cm)

27. Nude Young Man Standing on Circular Base

Creator:

Classical; Alexandrian?

Date:

2nd century B.C.E. and later

Time period:

Ptolemaic Period with later recutting, or modern

Medium:

Marble

Extent:

13 1/2 × Diam. of base 4 7/16 in. (34.3 × 11.3 cm)

28. Page from Book

Date:

946 AH / 1539 C.E.

Medium:

Ink and gold on paper

Extent:

5 1/8 x 3 1/8 in. (13 x 8 cm)

29. Panel of 16 Tiles from the Shrine of Zayn al-Mulk

Date:

A.H. 885/1480-81 C.E.

Medium:

Ceramic; fritware, painted in cobalt blue, turquoise, green, manganese purple, yellow ochre, and opaque white glazes, cut to shape in the mosaic faience technique and set in plaster

Extent:

frame: 41 x 28 in. (104.1 x 71.1 cm) sight: 31 5/8 x 19 1/8 in. (80.3 x 48.6 cm)

30. Persian Book

Date:

1274 AH / 1857-1858 C.E.

Time period:

Qajar Period

Medium:

Red leather

Extent:

8 1/4 x 6 in. (21 x 15.2 cm)

31. Pomegranate Carpet

Date:

late 15th century

Medium:

Wool

Extent:

95 x 55 1/4 in. (241.3 x 140.3 cm)

32. Small Box with Separate Cover

Date:

ca. 1539-1075 B.C.E., and 19th century C.E.

Geographic region:

Thebes, Egypt

Time period:

New Kingdom, and Modern

Medium:

Wood (Dicotyledon and Cotyledon), ivory, paint

Extent:

1 x 1 1/2 x 2 7/16 in. (2.5 x 3.8 x 6.2 cm)

33. Small Stamp

Date:

ca. 1539-1292 B.C.E., or 19th century C.E.

Time period:

New Kingdom (possibly), or later

Medium:

Limestone

Extent:

9/16 in. (1.5 cm) base: 2 1/16 x 1 3/16 in. (5.2 x 3 cm)

34. Statue of a Woman

Creator:

Greek

Date:

4th-3rd century B.C.E. or 19th century C.E.

Medium:

Terracotta, pigment

Extent:

9 1/16 × 3 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (23 × 9.7 × 6.1 cm)

35. Taweret

Date:

664-332 B.C.E., and likely 19th century C.E.

Time period:

Late Period (probably), and modern additions

Medium:

Bronze

Extent:

4 15/16 × 1 1/16 × 7/8 in. (12.5 × 2.7 × 2.2 cm)

36. Textile Fragment with Vermiculated Pattern

Date:

14th-15th century

Medium:

Painted cotton

Extent:

12 5/8 x 8 1/4 in. (32 x 21 cm)

37. The Sasanian King Khusraw and Courtiers in a Garden, Page from a manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi

Date:

late 15th-early 16th century

Medium:

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Extent:

9 1/2 x 5 7/16 in. (24.1 x 13.8 cm)

38. Vase with Three Handles

Date:

12th-15th century

Time period:

Mamluk Period

Medium:

Marble

Extent:

30 3/4 x 24 in. (78.1 x 61.0 cm)

39. Weight

Date:

13th-15th century

Time period:

Fatimid Period

Medium:

Glass

Extent:

1/4 x 7/8 in. (0.6 x 2.2 cm)

40. Weight

Date:

13th-15th century

Time period:

Fatimid Period

Medium:

Glass

Extent:

3/16 x 1 1/16 in. (0.6 x 2.7 cm)

41. “Rustam Lassoes the Khaqan (Ruler) of China,” Page from an Illustrated Manuscript of the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdawsi (d. 1020)

Date:

late 15th-early 16th century

Geographic region:

Shiraz, Iran

Medium:

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Extent:

9 1/2 x 5 7/16in. (24.1 x 13.8cm)