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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints

Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)

Date: ca. 1504
Accession Number: 16.30ab

The Feast of Herod and the Beheading of the Baptist

Master of the Life of Saint John the Baptist (Italian, Rimini, active first third 14th century)

Date: ca. 1300–1330
Accession Number: 1975.1.103

The Annunciation to Zacharias; (verso) The Angel of the Annunciation

Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, Siena 1398–1482 Siena)

Date: ca. 1455–60
Accession Number: 1975.1.37

Furniture support: female sphinx with Hathor-style curls

Date: ca. 18th century B.C.
Accession Number: 32.161.46

Set of Fifty-Two Playing Cards

Date: ca. 1470–80
Accession Number: 1983.515.1–.52

Burgonet

Filippo Negroli (Italian, Milan, ca. 1510–1579)

Date: dated 1543
Accession Number: 17.190.1720

Portrait of Shun'oku Myōha (1311–1388)

Unidentified Artist

Date: ca. 1383
Accession Number: 2007.329

Wang Xizhi Watching Geese

Qian Xuan (Chinese, ca. 1235–before 1307)

Date: ca. 1295
Accession Number: 1973.120.6

The Fieschi Morgan Staurotheke

Date: early 9th century
Accession Number: 17.190.715a, b

Dragon-handled Jug with Inscription

Date: late 15th– first quarter 16th century
Accession Number: 91.1.607

Medallion with a seated deity and a male worshiper

Date: ca. 8th–7th century B.C.
Accession Number: 1989.281.20

"Isfandiyar's Third Course: He Slays a Dragon", Folio from the Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Shah Tahmasp

Abu'l Qasim Firdausi (935–1020)

Date: ca. 1530
Accession Number: 1970.301.51

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Date: late 9th–early 10th century
Accession Number: 30.45

Rolltop desk

David Roentgen (German, Herrnhag 1743–1807 Wiesbaden, master 1780)

Date: ca. 1776–79
Accession Number: 41.82

Gold Neck Ring

Date: 6th–4th century B.C.
Accession Number: 2005.366

"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Farrukh ibn `Abd al-Latif

Date: dated A.H. 715/A.D. 1315
Accession Number: 57.51.23

Koto

Metalwork by Goto Teijo, 9th generation Goto master, Japan (1603 - 1673)

Date: early 17th century
Accession Number: 2007.194a–f

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript

Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (d. 1320–21)

Date: dated A.H. 707/ A.D. 1307–8
Accession Number: 55.44

Saint James the Greater

Gil de Siloe (Spanish, active 1475–1505)

Date: ca. 1489–93
Accession Number: 69.88

"Men Treading Grapes", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides

Date: dated A.H. 621/ A.D. 1224
Accession Number: 56.20

Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleiman the Magnificent (r. 1520–66)

Date: ca. 1555–60
Accession Number: 38.149.2

Painted Cloth (Pichwai) Depicting the Celebration of the Festival of Cows

Date: late 18th–early 19th century
Accession Number: 2003.177

Sword Guard (Tsuba)

Inscribed by Ishiguro Masayoshi (Japanese, 1772–after 1851)

Date: 19th century
Accession Number: 36.120.79

Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize Stallion

Tara (Indian, active 1836–1870)

Date: 1845–46
Accession Number: 2001.344

Statuette of Amun

Date: ca. 945–712 B.C.
Accession Number: 26.7.1412

Damascus Room

Date: dated A.H. 1119/A.D. 1707
Accession Number: 1970.170

Helmet (Spangenhelm)

Date: 6th–7th century
Accession Number: 42.50.1

A Stallion

Painting by Habiballah of Sava (active ca. 1590–1610)

Date: ca. 1601–6
Accession Number: 1992.51

"Bahram Gur Sees a Herd of Deer Mesmerized by Dilaram' s Music", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi

Amir Khusrau Dihlavi (1253–1325)

Date: 1597–98
Accession Number: 13.228.28

Earflare, Winged Messenger

Date: 3rd–7th century
Accession Number: 66.196.40

Ritual Statuette of Thutmose III

Date: ca. 1479–1425 B.C.
Accession Number: 1995.21

Pectoral and Necklace of Sithathoryunet with the Name of Senwosret II

Date: ca. 1887–1878 B.C.
Accession Number: 16.1.3

Standing Figure

Date: 1st century BCE–1st century CE
Accession Number: 1995.427

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)

Johan Adolph Grecke (Russian, Saint Petersburg, recorded 1755–90)

Date: 1786
Accession Number: 1986.265.1, .2

Helmet with divine figures beneath a bird with outstretched wings

Date: ca. 1500–1100 B.C.
Accession Number: 63.74

The Magnolia Vase

Manufactured by Tiffany & Co. (1837–present)

Date: ca. 1893
Accession Number: 99.2

Necklace

René-Jules Lalique (French, Aÿ 1860–1945 Paris)

Date: ca. 1897–99
Accession Number: 1985.114

"The Eavesdropper", Folio from a Haft Paikar (Seven Portraits) of the Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami

Maulana Azhar (d. 1475/76)

Date: ca. 1430
Accession Number: 13.228.13.6

Sword and scabbard

Date: ca. 7th century A.D.
Accession Number: 65.28a, b

The Old Plum

Attributed to Kano Sansetsu (Japanese, 1589–1651)

Date: ca. 1645
Accession Number: 1975.268.48a–d

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Tenjin Shrine

Date: 13th century
Accession Number: 25.224a–e

"Farhad Carves a Milk Channel for Shirin", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami

Nizami (Ilyas Abu Muhammad Nizam al-Din of Ganja) (probably 1141–1217)

Date: A.H. 931/A.D. 1524–25
Accession Number: 13.228.7.5

Funerary Mask

Date: 10th–11th century
Accession Number: 1974.271.35

Footed Bowl and Plate

Date: first half 18th century
Accession Number: 2000.490a, b

Kosode with Design of Shells and Sea Grasses

Date: early 17th century
Accession Number: 1992.253

The Nativity

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))

Date: ca. 1406–10
Accession Number: 1975.1.66

Yataghan from the Court of Suleyman the Magnificent

Workshop of Ahmed Tekelü (possibly Iranian, active Istanbul, ca. 1520–30)

Date: ca. 1525
Accession Number: 1993.14

Saltcellar

Date: mid-13th century
Accession Number: 1983.434

Goa Stone and Gold Case

Date: late 17th–early 18th century
Accession Number: 2004.244a–d

The Adoration of the Magi

Giotto di Bondone (Italian, Florentine, 1266/76–1337)

Date: possibly ca. 1320
Accession Number: 11.126.1