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Bowl Inscribed with Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and 'Ali ibn Abi Talib

Reddish earthenware covered in white slip and painted with black (manganese and iron) and red (iron) under clear lead glaze

10th centuryPersian

Textile Arts

Budong Mingwang (Acala Candamaharosana), "The Immovable One," One of the Five Great Wisdom Kings

Unknown Artist, dated 1764

'Kesi' thangka mounted as a hanging scroll; silk in tapestry weave with some details painted on the surface in gold and light colors

18th centuryChinese

Vessels

Neck Amphora (storage jar): Nereus (or Triton) with Scepter and Dolphin; Woman Running

The Berlin Painter, c. 490 BCE

Terracotta

5th century BCEGreek

Albums

Youth Dressed as a Dervish, folio from an album

Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), c.1630

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

17th centuryPersian

Paintings

The Virgin and Child

Rogier van der Weyden, c. 1480

Oil on redwood panel

15th centuryNetherlandish

Sculpture

Left Hand of a Colossal Amida Buddha

Kaikei, first quarter 13th century

Wood with traces of lacquer, polychromy, and gilding

13th centuryJapanese

Textile Arts

Prayer Carpet

Unknown Artist, 1890-1910

Wool

19th-20th centuryCaucasian

Stained Glass

When the Morning Stars Sang Together and All the Sons of God Shouted for Joy

John La Farge, c. 1884-1885

Pot metal, opalescent, and uncolored glass with vitreous paint

19th centuryAmerican

Stained Glass

When the Morning Stars Sang Together and All the Sons of God Shouted for Joy

John La Farge, c. 1884-1885

Pot metal, opalescent, and uncolored glass with vitreous paint

19th centuryAmerican

Prints

Great Lion

Jacques de Gheyn II, c. 1590

Engraving printed in black ink on off-white antique laid paper

16th centuryDutch

Drawings

Aladdin's Lamp

Elihu Vedder, c. 1888

Gouache, gold leaf, and black ink on brown card

19th centuryAmerican

Sculpture

Standing Buddha with Right Hand Lowered and with Left Hand Raised

Unknown Artist, late 7th - early 8th century

Gilt bronze

7th-8th centuryKorean

Sculpture

Buddha Standing on an Octagonal, Double-Lotus Base with His Right Hand Raised in the Abhaya-mudra and His Left Hand Lowered in the Varada-mudra, Probably the Buddha Shakyamuni (Sŏk'kamoni Yŏrae)

Unknown Artist, 8th-9th century

Gilt bronze

8th-9th centuryKorean

Photographs

The Glow of Night, New York

Alfred Stieglitz, 1897

19th centuryAmerican

Vessels

Cup with Lobed Rim and Human Faces

Unknown Artist, 12th century

Fritware with molded relief decoration under blue (cobalt) transparent alkali glaze

12th century

Paintings

The Denunciation of Adam and Eve

George Frederic Watts, c. 1873-c. 1898

Oil on canvas

19th-20th centuryBritish

Photographs

Vivien and Merlin

Julia Margaret Cameron, 1874

19th centuryBritish

Paintings

Portrait of a man

Unknown Artist, Mid-3rd century CE

Encaustic on imported European lime wood (Tilia europaea).

3rd century CEEgyptian

Architectural Elements

Tile Panel with Decoration of Composite Flowers and Serrated Leaves

Unknown Artist, c. 1570

Fritware, underglaze painted

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