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Stenciled Scenes of Lion and Gazelle (verso)1710
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Head of a WomanFrederick Gottwald · 1900
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Eleven-Headed, Thousand-Armed Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokiteshvara)1500
Peasant Children Dancing1654
Pair of Portraits of Samurai-Officials: Hirai Kyosei and Hirai Rinsei1788
Hannah Wentworth AtkinsonJoseph Blackburn · 1760
Akrura Rides toward Dwarka, page from the large Basohli Bhagavata Purana1762
Illuminated page (verso), from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al- Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492) with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Khirad-nama-i Iskandari (Alexander’s Book of Wisdom)1605
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Salim and Salima return to Ayaz and Mahmuda in the sanctuary, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Thirty-third Night1560
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Album of Miscellaneous Subjects, Leaf 1Fan Qi · 1662
Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: Monk Holding a Flower (recto); Leaf from a Jain Manuscript: Kalpa-sutra: text describing descent of Mahavira into the womb of the Brahman woman Devananda (verso)1290
Sultan Ibrahim ibn Adham of Balkh Visited by Angels1740
The soldier receives a garland of roses from his wife which will remain fresh as long as she is faithful, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fourth Night1560
Destitute Dead Mother holding her sleeping Child in WinterOctave Tassaert · 1850
Autumn Evening with Full Moon on Musashino Plain1612
The Brahman’s predicament is conveyed by the wind to the fish who carries the news to the king of the Ocean, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eleventh Night1560
Lohans1325
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Kasuga Shrine Mandala1316
Poet Fisherman1849
Playing the Qin in a Secluded ValleyIn the style of Wen Zhengming · 1548
The merchant of Tirmiz takes the wise parrot and myna to ‘Ubaid, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Forty-second Night1560
Morning Sun over Heavenly Citadel PeakDing Yunpeng · 1614
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Princess and attendant in trompe l’oeil window1765
Summer and Winter LandscapesKano Naonobu · 1628
Harvest TimeHenry Keller · 1903
Miniature Album with Figures and Landscape (Three Men)Zeng Yangdong · 1822
Portrait of a Woman in a White Dress1813
The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth NightBasawan · 1560
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Maharao Kishor Singh II of Kota (r. 1819–28) Worshiping Krishna as Brij Rajji1825