Indian and Southeast Asian Art

3,314 artworks

Green Tara

Aniko (Nepalese, active in Tibet mid- to late 1200s), 1250

Brahmanshanti Yaksha: Folio (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalaka of Devachandra

Devachandra (Indian), 1279

Folio from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya of Devachandra: Text (recto); Brahmanshanti Yaksha (verso)

Devachandra (Indian), 1279

Folio (recto) from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya of Devachandra: Text

Devachandra (Indian), 1279

Monk Holding a Flower Venerated by a Lay Disciple: Folio 141 (verso), from a Kalpa-sutra and Story of Kalakacharya

Devachandra (Indian), 1286

Persian calligraphy framed by an ornamental border of flowers, birds, and deer, from the Late Shah Jahan Album

Mir 'Ali Haravi (Persian, active in Herat, Afghanistan, died c. 1550), 1495

Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish Poems in Praise of Wine (verso)

Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s), 1500

Folios A and B from the "Five Treasures" (Panj Ganj) of Jami

Mushfiq (Indian, active early 1600s), 1520

Page from a Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492), with two Persian masnavis: Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Subhat al-abrar (Rosary of the Righteous) (verso)

Mushfiq (Indian, active early 1600s), 1520

Page from the Panj Ganj (Five Treasures) of Abd al-Rahman Jami (Persian, 1414–1492), with two Persian masnavis (narrative poems): Yusuf va Zulaykha (Joseph and Zulaykha) and Subhat al-abrar (Rosary of the Righteous)

Mushfiq (Indian, active early 1600s), 1520

Folio B: Folio from the "Five Treasures" (Panj Ganj) of Jami (recto)

Mushfiq (Indian, active early 1600s), 1520

Calligraphy from a Ghazal of Badr al-Din Hilali Jaghata’i (Persian, active c. 1500)

Faqir Ali (Persian, active c. 1550–1610), 1545

Hunting with falcons in a landscape; verso: Calligraphy of Chaghatai Turkish poems in praise of wine, Sultan Muhammad Nur (Persian, c. 1472–1536) and Mirza Muhammad (probably Persian, active c. 1520s)

Abd al-Samad (Persian, c. 1510–1600), 1553

Hunting with falcons in a landscape (recto)

Abd al-Samad (Persian, c. 1510–1600), 1553

Landscape with a lotus pool, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot), Eighth Night

Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

The handmaiden again appeals for justice and the prince is led to the place of execution for the third time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

The hunter offers the mother parrot to the king of Kamarupa, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1555

The vizier’s son receives the magic wooden parrot from the wife of the merchant, who is drunk, and has a replica made by a carpenter, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Tenth Night

Lalu (Indian, active mid-1500s), 1555

The Parrot Addresses Khujasta at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Night, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot)

Sravana (Indian), 1555

The hunter throws away the baby parrots, who pretend to be dead, and captures the mother, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Fifth Night

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1555

The prince’s ordeal continues, he is ordered away to be executed for the fifth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Ghulam 'Ali (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

The handmaiden appeals for justice and the prince is taken to the execution site for the fourth time, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Tara 2 (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

A woman asks her lover to leave her house, brandishing his sword and feigning rage in order to deceive her husband who has just arrived, from a Tuti-nama (Tales of a Parrot): Eighth Night

Gujarati (Indian, active 1550s-1590s), 1555

Page from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): text page

Basavana (Indian, active c. 1560–1600), 1555