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A blue-green porcelain cup that stands on a small, rounded foot. The bowl is low and wide and flares slightly at the lip. There are small indents around on the lip.

Foliate Cup with Flaring and Notched Lip

Chinese

A gilt bronze sculpture of a man standing on a decorated pedestal.

Buddha Standing on an Octagonal, Double-Lotus Base with His Right Hand Raised in the Abhaya-mudra and His Left Hand Lowered in the Varada-mudra, Probably the Buddha Shakyamuni (Sŏk'kamoni Yŏrae)

Korean

A gilt bronze sculpture of a man standing on a dark pedestal.

Standing Buddha with Right Hand Lowered and with Left Hand Raised

Korean

A gilt bronze sculpture of a man wearing a crown and standing on a pedestal.

Crowned Bodhisattva, Probably Taeseji Posal (Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta), Standing on a Heptagonal, Double-Lotus Base, the Bodhisattva's Right Hand Raised, the Left Hand Lowered

Korean

A curved pale teal and purple bowl.

Small Circular Wine Bowl with Purple Splashes

Chinese

A circular dish shown from above. It is pale blue with large, dark purple splotches.

Circular Flat Dish with Everted Lip and Purple Splashes

Chinese

A circular dish shown from above. The rim is dark purple and the center is light blue.

Circular Flat Dish with Everted Lip and Purple Rim

Chinese

A porcelain bowl with a pale blue-green glaze. It has a small foot and the walls jut outward. The inside of the walls have widely-spaced white lines that meet the center to small indents around the lip.

Small Circular, Conical Bowl with Notched Rim

Chinese

Krishna encounters Kotara, the mother of the thousand-armed demon Bana (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Krishna encounters Kotara, the mother of the thousand-armed demon Bana (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a Bhagavata Purana series

Indian

The Mean Teacher Who Beat Children at School (text recto; painting verso of folio 64), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di

The Mean Teacher Who Beat Children at School (text recto; painting verso of folio 64), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di

Persian

The Man Who Disrespected Hajjaj b. Yusuf (painting recto; text verso of folio 64), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di

The Man Who Disrespected Hajjaj b. Yusuf (painting recto; text verso of folio 64), painting from a manuscript of the Kulliyat of Sa‘di

Persian

Untitled (text, bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (profile portait of female figure (Elizabeth Goldring), right page)

Untitled (text, bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (profile portait of female figure (Elizabeth Goldring), right page), 1928 - 2014

Otto Piene

Captain John Linzee (1743-1798)

Captain John Linzee (1743-1798), c. 1720 - c. 1791

Sir George Chalmers

Sitting Male Figure

Sitting Male Figure

Greek

X-radiograph(s) of "Mattheus van der Broucke"

X-radiograph(s) of "Mattheus van der Broucke", 1627 - 1678

Artist of original: Samuel van Hoogstraten

A textile fragment in black, white, yellow, blue and red threads with floral and geometric patterns and an inscription in Greek.

Fragments of a Hanging: St. Theodore and Inscription

Coptic

Musa's Rod(?) Swallowing the Magician's Eyes (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 83 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi

Musa's Rod(?) Swallowing the Magician's Eyes (painting, recto; text, verso), folio 83 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi

Ottoman

Winged Quadruped with Duck Bill (painting, recto), Text (verso), folio 36 from Illustrated Manuscript of Tarjama-i Tarikh-i Yangi Dunya (Translation of the History of the New World)

Winged Quadruped with Duck Bill (painting, recto), Text (verso), folio 36 from Illustrated Manuscript of Tarjama-i Tarikh-i Yangi Dunya (Translation of the History of the New World)

Ottoman

Text (recto), Young Prince Accepts a Polo Ball from the Dervish (painting, verso), illustrated folio (28) from a Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi

Text (recto), Young Prince Accepts a Polo Ball from the Dervish (painting, verso), illustrated folio (28) from a Manuscript of the Guy u Chawgan by `Arifi, flourished 1514-43

Calligraphy attributed to Mir Ali al Husayni

Majnun as a Sheep Looking at Layla (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Mantiq al-Tayr (Conference of the Birds) by Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221)

Majnun as a Sheep Looking at Layla (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of Mantiq al-Tayr (Conference of the Birds) by Farid al-Din Attar (d. 1221)

Ottoman

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