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35.7. Chinese, Chou period. A badge of rank of the type kitei. Color: Deep 



cream and soft light brown, with a few streaks of darker brown. 

 0.175 by 0.040 by 0.012. 



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34.24-34.28. Arabic (North Africa), twelfth century. Bound volume of a por- 

 tion of the Qtia'an; parchment. Written in maghrihl script in 

 dark brown ink ; orthographical signs in red, blue, and yellow ; 

 illuminated lectionary marks. Four pages illuminated in gold 

 (34.25-34.28). 0.165 by 0.115. 

 35.18. Persian, sixteenth century (A. D. 1546). Bound book; Ouy u-Chaicgan 

 (The Ball and the Polo-mallet) by Arifi of Herat; calligrapher, Shah 

 Mahmiid Nishapuri. Text in nasta'Uq script. Two illustrations (see 

 below under Paintings: 35.19, 35.20). 



PAINTINGS 



35.8. Chinese, Sung period. Women bathing and dressing children : An 



album picture. Painted in full color on a fan-shaped piece of silk; 

 10 seals on the painting. 0.227 by 0.244. (Illustrated.) 



35.9. Chinese, Sung period. Two women with attendants : An album picture. 



Painted in full color on a fan-shaped piece of silk ; 11 seals on the 

 painting. 0.227 by 0.244. (Illustrated.) 



35.10. Chinese, twelfth-thirteenth century. Sung period. By Yen Tz'u-yii. 



Landscape: An album picture. Painted in ink and tint on silk. 

 Signature and 10 seals on the painting. 0.253 by 0.2.58. (Illustrated.) 



35.11. Chinese, tenth-eleventh century. Sung period. Tun-huang type. 



K?itigarbha (Ti-tsang) and one of the Ten Kings of Hell. In the 

 lower register, Vajrasattva and a donor. Painted in full color on 

 silk, 1.064 by 0.582. (Illustrated.) 

 35.17, Chinese, Sung period. By Mi Yu-jen (1086-1165), " Wooded hills and 

 autumn mists." Painted in ink monochrome. Title, signature, and 

 14 seals on the painting. Paper makimono, 0.23 by 2.319. 

 35.2. Indian, A. D. 1600, or earlier. Rajput, Rajasthanl. Krisnfi and Radha. 

 Painted on paper in solid colors and slight gold. 0.205 by 0.157. 

 (Illustrated.) 

 35.19-35.20. Persian, sixteenth century (A. D. 1546). Safawld period. Two 

 illustrations from the manuscript book of Guy u-Chawffdn 

 (35.18; see above). Painted in colors and gold on paper: 



(a) A polo game, 0.194 by 0.123. (Illustrated.) 



(b) Sc-ene in a polo field, 0.195 by 0.123. (Illustrated.) 



SILVER 



34.23. Persian, fourth century. Sasanian period. A memorial plate, deco- 

 rated with the figure of Sapor II (A. D. 309-380) on horseback hunt- 

 ing wild boar, executed in applied hollow relief, gilded. Diameter, 

 0.24, (Illustrated.) 



WOOD-CARVING 



35,1, Arabic (Persia), late eleventh century. Seldjuk period. One leaf of a 

 double door (repaired; four patches). Decoration consisting of in- 

 scriptions in ornamented kufic script, cut in counter-sunk relief to a 

 depth of 0.019. 1.440 by 0.483 by 0.05. (Illustrated.) 



