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    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Vase

    Date: 
    17th century
    Medium: 

    Earthernware with green slip and blue and white pigments under a clear glaze

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.302
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
    Classification: 
    Containers - Ceramics
    Status: 
    By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Textile Fragment with a Courtier and Prisoner

    Artist: Abdallah, active 17th century
    Date: 
    early 17th century
    Medium: 

    Silk; compound weave

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.86
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
    Classification: 
    Textiles
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    The Battle at Tus, from a Book of Kings (Shahnama) manuscript

    Date: 
    ca. 1580–90
    Medium: 

    Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.59
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    By appointment, Duffy Study Room
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Alexander the Great Marches toward Andalusia, from a Book of Kings (Shahnama) manuscript

    Date: 
    late 16th century
    Medium: 

    Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.60
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
    Classification: 
    Paintings
    Status: 
    By appointment, Duffy Study Room
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Textile Fragment with the Story of Khusrow and Shirin

    Date: 
    17th century
    Medium: 

    Silk; tapestry weave

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.82
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
    Classification: 
    Textiles
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Poem in Shikasta script

    Date: 
    18th century
    Medium: 

    Ink, color, and gold on paper

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.56
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Qajar dynasty (1789–1925)
    Classification: 
    Calligraphy
    Status: 
    By appointment, Duffy Study Room
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Length of compound twill

    Date: 
    16th century
    Medium: 

    Silk twill weave

    Accession Number: 
    1952.52.2
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722)
    Classification: 
    Textiles
    Status: 
    Not on view
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Calligraphy

    Date: 
    19th century
    Medium: 

    Ink on Paper

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.54
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Qajar dynasty (1789–1925)
    Classification: 
    Calligraphy
    Status: 
    By appointment, Duffy Study Room
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Verse From Gulistan by Saadi

    Calligrapher: Youssef
    Date: 
    1899
    Medium: 

    ink on Paper

    Accession Number: 
    1951.51.57
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Qajar dynasty (1789–1925)
    Classification: 
    Calligraphy
    Status: 
    By appointment, Duffy Study Room
    Collection Objects
    Asian Art

    Mat made up of compound cloth trimming bands.

    Date: 
    18th century
    Medium: 

    Five widths of one pattern are sewed together and a second design is used as border around the edge

    Accession Number: 
    1945.359
    Culture: 
    Iranian/Persian, Islamic
    Period: 
    Safavid dynasty (1501–1722), Zand dynasty (1751–94)
    Classification: 
    Textiles
    Status: 
    Not on view

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