Circular Mirror with Relief Decoration of Real and Fantastic Animals and Auspicious Inscription

A thin, well-defined, relief lip borders this circular mirror's decorated back. The decorative scheme is organized into five concentric rings with the crouching-beast-form boss at ...

A well-articulated, relief lip encircles the periphery of this circular mirror; on the mirror's decorated back, a single bowstring line rises in relief about one centimeter in from...

Among the most characteristic and compelling art forms of the Qajar period (1779–1924) in Iran are works in “lacquer.” Technically distinct from East Asian lacquers, these are esse...

This “master of animals” finial depicts a stylized man with an (attacking?) animal on each side. The man has a fungiform cap, open at the center for insertion of a pin. The man, wh...

This object is a fragmentary, handmade terracotta figurine that depicts an anthropomorphic female figure, of which about three-quarters survives: the head, arms, torso, and the upp...