Composite page mounted from a painting of a seated woman signed by Mahmud Muzahhib; drawing of a falcon; and two calligraphies in nasta'lī (top left signed by Shah Mahmud; bottom right signed by Sultan Muhammad Nur)

Page from an anthology of Iskandar Sultan showing designs for bookbinding components

Dish

Ewer

Designs for medallions

Silver vessel from Iran

The Rein Pattern Book: Bestiary subjects

Composite page with unsigned practice exercise and two qiṭa'

Bird

Wall panel with falconer (copy)

Page of calligraphies in nasta'līq with border possibly by Muzaffar 'Ali

Pair of Ear Ornaments (Kowari)

Bird-and-flower painting

Tapestry fragment

Mosque of Hammuda Pasha

Tunic depicting felines and birds

Detail of porch of the maidens (the 'Caryatid Porch') and west façade, Erechtheum, Athens

Arhai-din-ka-Jhompra Mosque, main gateway

Pages from the "Nativity Book" of Iskandar Sultan showing medallions enclosed by corner pieces at the center of each page

Endpaper patched together from rectangles of paper

Decorative panel from entrance to bath

Jar with bird-wing motifs, feathers, and diagonal serrated bands

Seed jar with three abstract, birdlike figures

Sarah returning to Abraham. "Octateuch," fol. 65r (lower scene)

Armband depicting confronted felines and raptorial birds

Door

Chinese paper depicting pomegranates

Hand-washing Machine from al-Jazari, Automata, Egypt or Syria

Hairpin Fragment in the Form of a Woman's Head, Tipasa, Algeria (?)

Polychrome pottery showing bird and serpent

Painted Dado Panels

Jar with zigzag motifs, macaw-head motifs, and birds

Page of calligraphies written in different scripts; two specimens signed by al-Hajj Muhammad al-Musharriji and Jamal Muhammad al-Musharriji

Karatay madrasa, façade

Standing Female Effigy

Masjid-i Sangi, exterior of north wall

Figure of a high-ranking matron

Page from a thirty-part Qur'an in naskh and muḥaqqaq

Woodwork from Egypt

Three figure studies, one with calligraphy signed by Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri

Seated Female Figurine

Detail of mural painting from the west wall of Las Pinturas Sub-1

Detail of the Death Vase (Vase K6547)

Bird designs with (A) killer-whale and trophy head substitutions, and (B) killer-whale design with feathers and trophy head substitutions

Fish effigy vessel with both a horned serpent and a macaw-headed serpent, and birds

Stone relief

Seated Female Effigy

Samarra Style B

Bowl

Pudicitia (Livia)

Elongated bird head

Vessel depicting a dancing girl, Paphos, Cyprus

Hunt carpet, Tabriz?

Great Mosque, mosaics in the mihrab

Duck

Jar with a human figure with feathers at elbows and hands and a bird with a human leg

Female Slab Figurine

Bird and owl effigy pipe

Portrait of a seated scribe

Standing Female Figurine

Female figure

Winged pendant depicting birds carrying squatting male figures

Arhai-din-ka-Jhompra, screen added to the façade of the prayer hall by Iltutmish

Hair Comb

Female figure

Page from the Baysunghur calligraphy album

Tripod Plate (Two views)

Mirror

Tombstone with arch framed by columns with ratna capitals and bases, detail

Copper repoussé plate depicting a falcon

Petroglyph panel at the Three Hills Creek site in St. Francois County, Missouri

Inkwell with Zodiac Signs

Birdstone

Stenciled page with angels from a safīna of ghazals

First page of calligraphy by Yaqut al-Musta'simi written in thuluth and naskh from Bahram Mirza's album of the six cursive scripts

Female rasp player seated on a stool

Masjid-i Sangi, mihrab showing remains of lamp/vase motif above its apex

Two-Headed Female Figurine (Two views)

Woman with a Birdcage

Rollout photograph of Vase K7268

Masjid-i Sangi, interior showing kīrttimukha motif at center of beam supporting dome

Standing Woman (Four views)

Drawing of a black-crowned night heron embroidered on a poncho

Festival celebrant adorned with birds

Lampas and compound-woven textile with the name of Abu Sa'id, probably Tabriz

Jar with modeled quail, linked diamonds, and diagonal bands of stepped scrolls

Composite page of "outlined" calligraphies with the signatures of Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi, Mas'ud al-Kirmani, Yari Muzahhib, and 'Ali

Large Standing Female Effigy, Nayarit

Jar with double-headed bird diamond motifs and abstract birds

Heavenly Bird from Hōryūji

Calyx-krater (detail): female dancer and a caricatural figure seesawing on either side of a statue of Silenus

Candlestick base, north-west Iran

Pair of jali screens

Raptor effigy pipe

Leather bookbinding for a Qurʼan manuscript

Wall panel from Tipu Sultan's chintz tent, Burhanpur

Useless Poems I, My poem flies like a telegram (Mayakovsky)

Silk fragment

Condor impersonator embroidered on mantle

Frontispieces to Manière Universelle de Monsieur Desargues pour pratique la perspective and Allegory of Girard Desargue’s Gnomonique, La Manière universelle de M. Desargues Lyonnois pour poser l'essieu et placer les heures et autres choses aux cadrans du soleil

Oudaia Gate, Almohad

Fragments of a funerary relief

Detail of entrance portal showing epigraphic decoration, Aq Saray

Seated Female Figurine

Shallow bowl with niello decoration

Illuminated headpiece and calligraphy

Ewer with Calligraphic Band

Temple-shaped censer, probably from Escuintla, Pacific Coast of Guatemala

Composite page of calligraphies in nasta'līq, one example signed by Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri

Underglaze-painted blue-and-white charger, Iznik

Illuminated painting depicting a dragon and simurgh in combat

Kneeling female figure

Female figure

Specimen in the six scripts signed by Muhammad Mu'min, dated in the last ten days of Rabi' II 924

Bowl Decorated in the Beveled Style

Jar with a zigzag diagonal band of scrolls, and quail (?)

Swallow-shaped gorget

Bowl depicting a pair of birds

Engraved shell gorget

Doublure comprising corner pieces and a medallion containing a simurgh and fox

Seated Female Figure

Double page from a Dīvān of Sultan Husayn copied by Sultan 'Ali Mashhadi

Doors to the main portal at the Shrine of Ahmad Yasavi

Students in front of Edward Millman's Women's Contribution to America's Progress

Masjid-i Pamonar, mihrab

Bowl

Collage of paintings from a Kalīla wa Dimna

Stone sculpture from façade

The Bird of Hermes depicted in the Ripley Scrolls

Khirbat al-Mafjar, divan, dome with six heads in a flower

Panels of minbar from Mosque of the Andalusians

Mosque, dome

Masjid-i Sangi, exterior view from the northeast

Statuette of a "ba" bird

Amulet case with niello inlay

Ince Minareli madrasa

Masjid-i Sangi, detail of entrance carvings

The thief discovered in the bedchamber

Jar with two plumed serpents, birds, and P-shaped motifs

Bowl

Dancer performing before the imperial family, detail, Pyxis

Textile Fragment with Jeweled Border, Egypt (?)

White gyrfalcon

Stone mould for pressing leather

Architectural element

Drawing of a hummingbird embroidered on a small mantle

Mosque, view of interior

Tile

Drawing of a shore bird embroidered on a loincloth

Cenotaph

Silver Pheasants

Frederick II, "Liber de Avibus": Figure swimming

Detail of the Doria Polonaise carpet, Iran

Winged pendant depicting frigate bird

Standing Female Figurine

Man’s finger ring with five birds

Bird and fish effigy pipe

Epigraphic design in thuluth done in the name of Khalil Sultan (r. 1405–9)

Sultan Han, interior

Seated female figure

Seated Female

Head of ba bird (fragment)

Useless Poems II, Young man in a state of nostalgia

The personification of Ktisis (Foundation); mosaic floor fragment

Female figure with an apron table

Vessel with parrot legs and a serpentine design

Stucco panel

Detail of a voided velvet cushion cover, probably Bursa

Rebecca giving birth to Jacob and Esau, Octaeuch, fol. 46v

Detail of the Blom Plate

Votive female figurine

Pygmy riding a partridge, capital

Seated chieftain with female attendants

Bowl depicting childbirth

Qasr al-Hayr West, detail of the façade

Molds for casting a woman votive and votive

Illuminated headpiece (detail)

Carpet, Cairo

Standing Female Figurine

Ivory pyxis, detail

Sheet of calligraphy in muhaqqaq an dnaskh with strips of Kufic, bannā'ī, and muhaqqaq

Bowl with Bird and Flowers

Envelope flap of binding

Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Murray with Dido Elizabeth Belle

Jar with modeled quail and a double-macaw-headed diamond motif

Stenciled medallion containing deer and lotus flowers from a safīna

Duck

Bowl depicting a bird with outstretched wings

Fragments of a Textile Hanging with Female Busts, Egypt

Luster-painted spouted jar, Iran

Illuminated ex libris in Bahram Mirza's album of the six cursive scripts

Drawing of a passerine embroidered on a hanging

Halawiya Mosque, mihrab

Hummingbird figure drawn on the desert

Basin, detail

Bowl

Door

Composition of calligraphies and a painting showing a prince contemplating a painted portrait

Cenotaph

Roman doll of Crepereia Tryphaena

Aynard prayer rug, Lahore

Page of calligraphies and illuminated headpiece

Life of St Cuthbert: The ravens penitent before St Cuthbert

Mosque, iwan

Underglaze-painted dish with sailing ship, Iznik

Tie beam covering in the Dome of the Rock

Replica of stucco macaw from the first constructional stage of the Copán ball court

Seated female figure

Three calligraphies, two signed by 'Ali

Composition of decoupage calligraphy signed by Sultan 'Ali al-Mashhadi and Mir Sa'id al-Haravi

Standing female figure

Manuscript of the Koran, Morocco

Dado Panel, detail

Seated rotund figure with hands on hips

Three calligraphies in nasta'līq signed by Shah Mahmud al-Nishapuri

Stenciled lotus design from an anthology of poetry

Seated Female Figurine

Vanna Venturi sitting at the entrance to her house

Detail of the Codex Vatican

'Roma Barberini', wall-painting

Standing Female Figurine, reverse

Standing Female Figurine

Casket with niello decoration

Lady Gazing at Her Reflection in a Pool

Amulet Portraying the Woman with the Issue of Blood, obverse, Egypt (?)

Sultan Han, entrance

Seated Woman

Canteen with four-quarters layout with a pair of woodpeckers and a pair of smaller birds

Left half of the frontispiece from a manuscript of the Koran, Gwalior

Wall painting on plaster from bath of Abu'l-Su'ud

Collage of specimens in naskh, thuluth, and riqā', the center sheet signed by Arghun al-Kamili

Mirror back with lovers on horseback

Figure of a kneeling woman

Incense Burner with the Queen of Saba (?), Egypt

Woman chewing coca

Nwenka mask

Standing Female

Rollout photograph of the Mosquito Vase

Jausaq al-Khaqani palace, painting

Arhai-din-ka-Jhompra Mosque, southeast corner bastion

Linguist staff finial representing a hen and her chicks

Effigy platform pipe of a heron eating a fish

Ceramic figurine

House of Venus Marina, garden painting

Two calligraphies in naskh, riqā', and thuluth signed by Hajji Bandgir (dated 1381) and al-Hajj Muhammad al-Musharriji (1379–80)

Mihrab with lamp above apex, detail

Gregory the Great, Dialogues

Tapestry Band with Female Bust, Egypt

Macaw effigy vessel with modeled quail

Great Mosque, al-Mansur's addition

Wall Painting with Female Figure

Detail of Dresden Codex, p. 40b

Illuminated headpiece and calligraphy in muḥaqqaq and naskh

Seated Female Figure

Koran stand, Iran or Central Asia

Great Mosque, bronze chandelier

Enthronement scene

Polychrome calligraphic design superimposing the name of 'Ali in Kufic