This manuscript of the Divan of Baki is copied in nastaliq script on more than 70 folios with 17 lines and 2 columns per page. Baki (1526-1600) was an Ottoman poet and his Turkish...

Scallop-Rimmed Charger with Courtly Couple

The interior of this impressive vessel is decorated with two large-scale, seated figures whose long-sleeved garments signal their courtly status. Tiraz bands on the upper arms of o...

Kunwar Ajit Singh's Revels in a Garden

This extraordinary, large-scale painting depicts a boisterous gathering in the garden of Sawar ruler Kunwar Ajit Singh. The long inscription at the center, written in the local dia...

Sawamura Tanosuke as Karigane Bunshichi

ni Wirtschaftsi Toyokuniga ni ni ni ni ni ni with five actors in the role of bandits against a fabric background. Here is the Kabuki actor Sawamura Tanosuke III, Hier Hier Hier Hie...

Wild Geese, Chrysanthemums, and Reeds

Spirit Summoner; Wild Geese Returning Home (Maboroshi; Rakugan) (right) and A Thin Veil of Clouds; Clearing Weather (Usugumo; Seiran) (left), from the series Eight Views of The Tale of Genji in the Floating World (Ukiyo Genji hakkei)

Diptych of woodblock prints; ink and color on paper, Edo period (1615–1868), Japan...

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