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Four handled storage jar with rope-pattern design
Iraq or Iran, Persian Gulf
10th–12th century

Head of a ruler
ca. 2300–2000 BCE

Ney-Anbān/Habbān
Persian Gulf
19th century

"Men Treading Grapes", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
dated 621 AH/1224 CE

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri
dated 707 AH/1307–8 CE

Vase with overlapping pattern and three bands of palm trees
ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE

Vase with basket-weave pattern
ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE

Object with a handle, perhaps a weight; palm trees and guilloche
ca. mid- to late 3rd millennium BCE

"Yazdegird I Kicked to Death by the Water Horse", Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30

Vessel with two zebu
2600–2350 BCE

"Preparing Medicine from Honey", from a Dispersed Manuscript of an Arabic Translation of De Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
dated 621 AH/1224 CE

Princely Couple
1400–1405

Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
12th–early 13th century

Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an"
Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri
706 AH/1306–7 CE

Wine Drinking in a Spring Garden
ca. 1430

Anthology of Persian Poetry
15th century

Imported Cobalt-on-White Bowl
9th–10th century

Luster Bowl with Winged Horse
late 12th century

"Buzurgmihr Masters the Game of Chess", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30

Candlestick with Figural Imagery
first half 14th century

Inscribed Pen Box
made in early–late 14th century; altered shortly before mid-15th century

Jar
8th century

Appliqué Plaque with a Tree and Four Birds
12th century

Ring-Shaped Ewer
8th century

Figurine in the Form of a Camel Carrying a Palanquin and Two Riders
12th–early 13th century

"Buzurjmihr Explains the Game of Backgammon (Nard) to the Raja of Hind", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30

"The Nobles and Mubids Advise Khusrau Parviz about Shirin", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30

"Kai Khusrau Enthroned Holding a Sword", Folio from the First Small Shahnama (Book of Kings)
Abu'l Qasim Firdausi
ca. 1300–30

Pen Box
13th century

Fragment of a Bowl
8th–13th century

"Physician Preparing an Elixir", Folio from a Materia Medica of Dioscorides
'Abdullah ibn al-Fadl
dated 621 AH/1224 CE

Lamp
8th–10th century

Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
12th–early 13th century

Pierced Bowl Signed by Hasan al-Qashani
late 11th–early 12th century

"Three Men Before a Castle", Folio from a Khavarannama (The Book of the East) of ibn Husam al-Din
Maulana Muhammad Ibn Husam ad Din
ca. 1476–86

Enameled and Gilded Bottle
late 13th century

Tiraz Textile Fragment
late 9th–early 10th century

Pectoral Disc Ornament
late 19th–early 20th century

Dagger (Jambiya) with Scabbard
hilt and scabbard, Arabian, Jedda; blade, Iranian or Turkish
hilt and scabbard, late 19th–early 20th century; blade, 18th–19th century

Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
12th–early 13th century