Episodes from the Story of Mahuy (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Porcelain Tea Container

Félix Hilaire Buhot

Folio (text, recto and verso) preceding the illustrated folio depicting "Lovers' Picnic", from a manuscript of the Divan (Collected Works) of Hafiz

Sultan Muhammad

Three Saints

Bahram Gur and the Indian Princess in the Black Pavilion (painting, verso; text, recto), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Haft Paykar) by Nizami

Cotton crash panel; Decided

Josef Albers

Master and Pupil (perhaps Prince Salim, later Emperor Jahangir, with his tutor)

Aqa Riza Jahangiri

Illustrated Book: Scenes of Suruga and Edo (Ehon suruga-mai) in 3 Volumes

Kitagawa Utamaro 喜多川歌麿

Untitled (bas-reliefs in a temple at Angkor Wat, Cambodia)

Ben Shahn

Folio 2 from a Qur'an: Invocation (recto), Fatiha (verso)

Tahmina Comes into Rustam's Chamber, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi

Square tile from an inscription frieze

Bookbinding for a Qur'an

Yusuf Entertained by Zulaykha's Maids, folio from a manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha by Jami

European Postage

Joseph Beuys

Bowl with Inscription and Birds

Tile Fragment with Ogival Medallions and Rosettes

Ski Jump

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Wedding Celebration of Zal and Rudaba (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Ushabti

Group of thirty-three glass tesserae

Youth with a Golden Pillow

Mirza ‘Ali

unb'd #5

Kjell Otterness

Daphnis and Lycénion

Marc Chagall

Position of Red Between Light and Dark

Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack

Sherd

Murder of Iraj (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

The Camden Town Murder (The Small Plate)

Walter Sickert

Folio 410 from a Qur'an: Decorative Page at the End of the Manuscript (recto)

Cantakerous

Ron Kleemann

Flora

Carlos Cuellar

Circe

Rand Huebsch

Tomb of Baudelaire (The Flowers of Evil)

Georges Rouault

Daoist Priest's Robe

Qaydafa Recognizes Iskandar from His Portrait (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Hero

Leonard Baskin

Untitled (Study for Harvard Murals) (recto and verso)

Mark Rothko

Figure Grouping

Stanley Stockton

European Postage

Joseph Beuys

Fish Subject

Pablo Ruiz Picasso

Fragment of an Attic Red-figure Cup; Side A: Upper part of a male in himation with cloak

Onesimos

Textile Fragment of the Kanbun era

TEXTILE

Owaji Island, from the series Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces [of Japan] ([Dai Nihon] Rokujūyoshū meisho zue)

Utagawa Hiroshige 歌川広重

Pigment Tone Control

Mary Henderson Boggs

Four Bostanjis (Gardeners) in a Landscape

Untitled [Man Walking]

Lyonel Feininger

[Untitled]

John Skoog

Fragment of Brocade

Frescoed Vault, Borgia Apartment, Vatican, after Pinturicchio

Harry Edward Warren Bernardino Pintoricchio

Shimbashi Railway Station with Train Time Table

Utagawa Sadahide

Illustrated Manuscript of the Gulistān (Rose Garden) by Sa`di

Red velvet panel with two embroidered medallions

Unidentified Artist

Oval pendant

Unidentified Artist

Untitled

Donald Judd

Assault on a Castle

Bihzad

Rectangular Silk Fragment Depicting a Portion of a Five-Clawed Dragon amid Clouds and Auspicious Symbols

Tea Bowl with Indented Lip and Decoration of a Plum Blossom, Two Butterflies, and Two Phoenixes in Flight

Warm Whisperings at the Emerald Pool

Scott Evans

Untitled (yellow-green, blues, green squares)

Josef Albers

Coin of Carthage

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

Adachi Ginkō 安達吟光

Jade Openwork Plaque with Animal Mask

Scene from the Illustrated Book on Famous Places in Kyoto (Kyō meisho zuchō)

Sestertius of Commodus

Commodus

Gaily Illustrated Story of Mid-Heian Court Life (Utsubo monogatari)

One of 72 coins