Actors in a scene from the play The Story of Cherry Blossoms on Higashiyama (Higashiyama sakura zōshi): unidentified actor as Koshimoto Kodemari, and Iwai Kumesaburō III as Ashikaga Jirō no kimi (left sheet)

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞 Shimizuya Tsunejirô

Gushtaham and Banduy Blind Hurmuzd (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Descent of the Buddha Amitabha and the Bodhisattvas Avalokitesvara and Mahâsthâmaprâpta (Amida sanzon raigō)

Timur Holding Court in a Garden (painting, verso), Text (recto), illustrated folio (34) from a Manuscript of the Timurnama by Hatifi

Portrait of Madonna

Manohar

Untitled (Help Wanted Full Page)

Stephen Dean

Composite Elephant with Monkey

The Kota Master

Woman Playing Kyokū, Number Three (Sono san) from the series Three Musical Instruments (Sankyoku)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Red Fruit

Mabuchi Thoru (aka Mabuchi Tōru)

Brisecour

Gaston Petit

Courtesan

Utagawa Kunisada 歌川国貞

Bodhisattva Samantabhadra (Fugen Bosatsu) Riding on an Elephant

Seated White Tara (?)

Cat and Goldfish Bowl

Isoda Koryūsai 磯田湖龍齋

Standing Bodhisattva and Two Standing Attendants, probably a fragment salvaged from a larger composition

Chinese Warrior (Ryūhō) Killing a Dragon

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Li Qi (J: Riki)/ Metal (Kane), from the series Five Elements of the Tale of the Water Margins (Suiko gogyō), with poems by Seiyōkan Umeyo (Baise) and Kagendō Tsugiho

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Warrior Watari Shinzaemon (?) Grappling with a Guardian Statue

Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳

Chōjun (Zhang Shun)/ Water (Mizu), from the series Five Elements of the Tale of the Water Margins (Suiko gogyō), with poems by Seiyōkan Umeyo (Baise) and Garyūen

Totoya Hokkei 魚屋北渓

Courtesan with Pipe representing Jurō, from the series Women Viewed as the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Mitate Shichifukujin)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Woman with Drum: from Hisagataya Club Series of Five Musical Instruments

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Ota Dōkan, from the series Six Immortal Warrior Poets (Buke rokkasen)

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Courtesan Koromode with Attendants during a Lull in the Snow (Yukima no Wakanaya uchi Koromode), second from the series Views of the Nakanochō for the Hisakata Poetry Club (Hisakataya Nakanochō no ni), with poems by Suihōtei Komatsu and Hisakataya

Yashima Gakutei 八島岳亭

Man with Sword

Utagawa Sadakage (Gokotei)

Komogata, Girl in Boat

Utagawa Sadakage (Gokotei)

Bust of a Bodhisattva Surrounded by a Monk and Devas (from the south wall of Mogao Cave 320, Dunhuang, Gansu province)

Bust of Bodhisattva (from the north wall of Mogao Cave 329 at Dunhuang, Gansu province)

Massacre of the Innocents

Unidentified Artist

II

Alfred Jensen

III

Alfred Jensen

Landscape with Pagoda and Red Drape

Unidentified Artist

JAPANESE BROCADE. COPPER COLOR AND GOLD

Fragmentary Orphrey Panel depicting Joachim and Anna

Unidentified Artist

The Fall of Troy

Unidentified Artist

The Ascension of King Solomon to Heaven, attended by Flying Angels and Demons, folio from an album

Assembly of Warriors, illustration to the Gemini Ashwamedha of the Mahabharata

Krishna and Radha Enthroned with Five Maidservants

Rustam and Rakhsh Slay a Dragon, illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Unknown Artist

Yusuf and Zulaykha

Guruy Executes Siyavush (painting, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Talish Carpet

TEXTILE

Rustam's Seventh Course: He Slays the White Demon (painting, recto; text, verso), illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Tamamo no Mae Transforming into a Fox

Utagawa Sadakage (Gokotei)

Central Asian(?) Carpet

Prayer Carpet

Unknown Artist

Sumak Carpet

Prayer Carpet

Unknown Artist

Illuminated roundel enclosing scene of a ruler with courtiers and gifts

Unknown Artist

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

Textile Fragment of the Kanpō era with Design of a Sacred Jewel

Prophet Preaching in a Mosque (painting, verso; text, recto), folio 5 from a manuscript of the Qisas al-Anbiya (Tales of the Prophets) of Ishaq b. Ibrahim al-Nayshaburi

Illuminated frontispiece, left-hand side of a bifolio from a manuscript of the Khulasa al-Akhbar

Owner's Stamp and Note (recto), Illuminated Frontispiece (verso), folio 3 from a Divan of Hafiz

Unknown Artist

Octagonal tile panel with split-palmettes, compound flowers, and leaves

Unknown Artist

Frontispiece (recto), Text (verso), folio 2 from a Manuscript of the Timurnama by Hatifi

Unknown Artist

Frontispiece, Introduction (verso), folio 1 from a Manuscript of the Timurnama by Hatifi

Unknown Artist

Chicago

Harry Callahan

Sa`di's Visit to an Indian Temple (painting, recto), Text (verso), folio 119 from a Manuscript of the Bustan by Sa`di, Written for Sultan `Abd al-`Aziz (1540-50), Overpainting attributed to Bishndas for the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-27)

Shaykh Zada Bishndas Mir ‘Ali al-Husayni

Ghazals (recto), Poet Conversing with Drinkers in a Tavern (painting, verso), illustrated folio 116 from a Divan of Hafiz

Unknown Artist

Introduction to the Shahnama (illuminated text, recto; text, verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Illuminated folio from a Qur’an: Sura 113

Carpet, so-called Ghorovan

Folio 1 from a Qur'an: Custom's Stamp (recto), Frontispiece, Fatiha (verso),

Unknown Artist

Khusraw and Shirin with Courtiers and Pomegranates (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Khamsa (Khusraw and Shirin) by Nizami

Folio 5 from a Manuscript of the Qur'an: Sura 2: 1-4 (recto), Sura 2: 5-18 (verso)

Unknown Artist

Notes (recto), Frontispiece, Prose Introduction (verso), folio 1 from a Manuscript of the Divan of Hafiz with Two 19th-Century Miniatures Added

Unknown Artist

PILE RUG

Hexagonal tile with interlacing split-palmette and floral pattern

Unknown Artist

Carpet