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Time Ravishing Youth and Beauty
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European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Blumka Gallery Alexis Gregory and Alexis Gregory Foundation Gifts and Promised Gift of Alexis Gregory 1998
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The palmette attachment plate is incised on the back only (the front face is plain where it would have connected with a patera bowl). The incisions represent two downward-curving v...
Manuscript of the Tuhfat al-Ahrar (The Gift to the Noble) by Jami, with lacquer binding
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Romantic Verses, folio from an album made for Shah Jahan
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The five lines of Persian poetry, likely copied in the 16th century, are extracted from a ghazal (a short lyric love poem) by Jalal Azad, a 14th-century Persian poet and a contempo...
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Youth Playing a Lyre
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Panathenaic Amphora: Libation and Sacrifice
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