Velvet with a chintamani pattern, silk and metal lamella. Turkey, mid 16th century
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Door of the Mosque of Barquq, Cairo. Photograph by David Lewis
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Bichitr - A Scribe, Mughal India, ca. 1625
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The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE) by the Persian polymath Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi, completed between 1410-11 CE
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Miniature pasted on an album leaf. “Portrait of Fath Ali Shah Qajar” Persia / Iran; 1226 H / 1811 CE
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Turban cover, silk embroidery on linen. Turkey, second half 16th century
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Miniature. “Four Women in a Palace Garden”, Mughal India, Bundi; mid-18th century
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Three horses galloping across a bare landscape. Painted in gouache on paper. Persia / Iran Mid 16th c
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Antique Suzani, Uzbekistan
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Antique Suzani, Uzbekistan, 19th century
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Suzani textile, Uzbek, ca. 1875
