["Grotesque," 1955, drawing by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

["Grotesque," 1954, drawing by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

Very large Bottle

Phil Rogers

Egitto-Phoenician Ivory Head of a Duck

Double page: Rustam Mourns Sohrab and Carries His Coffin (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Buzurgmihr Counsels Anushirvan (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Circular Dish with Decoration of the Five Poisonous Elements Attending the Demon Queller Zhong Kui

Ovoid Bottle with Short, Narrow Neck and with Floral Decor

Calabash-Shaped Bottle or Vase with Decoration of Stylized Lotus Arabesque

Recycling Paper/The Fulling Block Shell (Kinutagai), from the series "Shell-Matching Game with Genroku Poets" (Genroku kasen kai-awase)

Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎

Parrot and Peach Blossoms, from the series Six Plaques of Birds and Flowers (Kachō gyokuban rokumai no uchi)

Suiwake

Chitrini Nayika, from a Rasikapriya Series

Unknown Artist

Circular Shallow Dish

Broad-Shouldered Ovoid Jar with Short Neck and Lightly Flaring Lip

["Grotesk," 1953, drawing by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

Bottle

Small, Circular Moon Flask with Bamboo Decor

Black-figure Alabastron: Water Birds

Smaller Pot from a Funerary Model in the Form of a Stove with Two Cooking Pots (2002.268.A-C)

An Outline of History

Larry Rivers

Jug

Iskandar Mourns the Dying Dara (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Pear-Shaped Bottle with Long Neck and Cloud-Scroll Ornaments

Horse

Tall, wide-mouthed jar

Circular Dish with Everted Rim and Decoration of Butterfly among Flowers and Garden Rocks

Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō

Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō

Pear-Shaped Bottle with Scrolling Peony Decor

Ritual Wine Vessel (Hu) with Inlaid Decoration of Dragons and Animals

Large, Broad-Shouldered Jar with Decoration of Fish and Aquatic Plants

Circular Bowl with Lightly Flaring Lip and Decoration of Blossoming Plum Branches and Birds

Circular Dish with Hexafoil Rim and with Decoration of Prunus and Dragon

Lotus and Flowering Branch in Circular Fan Shape -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu)

Hu Zhengyan 胡正言

Circular Dish with Decoration of Daoist Immortal Lü Dongbin Dressed as a Scholar Floating on a Cloud

Jug

[Watercolor by Lyonel Feininger, 1933]

Lyonel Feininger

Small, Calabash-Shaped Bottle

Wood-Owl Woman

Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Kay Khusraw Reviews His Troops (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Larger Pot from a Funerary Model in the Form of a Stove with Two Cooking Pots (2002.268.A-C)

Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Makhsan al-Asrar) by Nizami

Bahram Chubina Slays Kut of Rum (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Ceramic Plate: Two Fish

Félix Henri Bracquemond

Small Aryballos

One-handled Jug with Cross-hatch Decoration

Large Globular Jar with Hare's Fur Glaze (Nogime midori temmoku tsubo)

Kimura Moriyasu

Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar Ties His Turban

Chokha

Small, Broad-Shouldered Jar with Decoration of the Eight Buddhist Treasures ('Babao') Amidst Scrolling Lotus Decor

Round-Bottomed, Globular Jar with Flaring Lip and Three Pointed, Openwork Handles, and with Cord-Marked Decor

Large, Round-Bottomed, Globular Storage Jar with Flaring Lip

Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō

Rules for the Department of Young Ladies (Shōgaku Joreishiki zukai)

Adachi Ginkō

Dish with scholar and a monk in a landscape

Flowering Branches in Circular Fan Shape -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu)

Hu Zhengyan 胡正言

Bamboo -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu)

Hu Zhengyan 胡正言

One of a Pair of Small Jars with Decoration of Chrysanthemums, Pinks and Autumn Grasses

Actor Seki Sanjurō (One of Three Kabuki Actors)

Utagawa Toyokuni 歌川豊国

["Grotesque," 1954, drawing by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

["Grotesque," 1954, drawing by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

["Grotesque," 1955, drawing by Lyonel Feininger]

Lyonel Feininger

Impasto Kyathos (Ladle)

Small Cup with Lightly Rounded Sides

Feeding Bottle

Majnun visited by his father in the desert (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Layla and Majnun by Nizami

Actors

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Rustam Mourns Sohrab and Carries His Coffin (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Star Tile with Lotus Decoration

Album Leaf with Two Drawings; verso: Album Leaf with Two Photographs and a Drawing

John Singer Sargent

Decorative Design

John Singer Sargent

Decorative Design

John Singer Sargent

Large ovoid jar with ideographs

Long-Necked, Pear-Shaped Bottle with Decoration of Two Stylized Birds in Flight

Flowering Branches in Circular Fan Shape -- Illustration from the Ten Bamboo Studio Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shizhuzhai shuhua pu)

Hu Zhengyan 胡正言

Battle of Okehazama in Bishū, Owari Province (Bishū Okehazama kassen)

Utagawa Toyonobu