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  • Folio from an unidentified text; verso: Prophet Muhammad preaches after the Battle of the Ditch; recto: text collections object detail photo
  • Basin collections object detail photo
  • View in Mecca: the Kaba and the Great Mosque, from the north collections object detail photo
  • Ewer collections object detail photo
  • Panel from a mihrab collections object detail photo
  • Folio from a <em>Falnama</em> (Book of omens); recto: blank; verso: Angels bow before Adam and Eve in Paradise collections object detail photo
  • Circular ornament collections object detail photo
  • Quran collections object detail photo
  • Fragment of a Quran, sura 2:191-233 collections object detail photo
  • Mosque lamp collections object detail photo
  • Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room object detail photo
  • Tara (one of the Famed Twenty-one Tara Emanations) collections object detail photo
  • Shadakshari Avalokiteshvara, from a four-part set of thangkas collections object detail photo
  • Bhaishajyaguru (Master of Healing) collections object detail photo
  • Guardian figure collections object detail photo
  • Portrait of Gaofeng Yuanmiao, 1238-1295 collections object detail photo
  • Scenes from the life of the Buddha collections object detail photo
  • Amida (Amitabha) collections object detail photo
  • Aizen Myoo (Ragaraja) collections object detail photo
  • Buddha draped in robes portraying the Realms of Desire collections object detail photo
  • Nandi collections object detail photo
  • Krishna approaches Radha, folio from a <em>Rasikpriya</em> collections object detail photo
  • Thakur Ajit Singh worships the Goddess collections object detail photo
  • Krishna Vishvarupa collections object detail photo
  • Queen Sembiyan Mahadevi as the Goddess Uma collections object detail photo
  • The Ramayana (Tales of Rama; The Freer Ramayana), Volume 2 collections object detail photo
  • Shiva Dakshinamurti (Shiva Who Faces South) collections object detail photo
  • Seated Ganesha collections object detail photo
  • Krishna fluting, folio from a Dasavatar series collections object detail photo
  • Durga as Mahishasuramardini collections object detail photo
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