Substrate

A working library of design, type, and visual culture.

899 works match

Cengiz Yar documents the de-mining efforts in the city of Mosul

Director Jerry Rothwell on Ethiopia's very small town that's big on producing world-class runners

Post-Soviet Visions: image and identity in the new Eastern Europe

Riga 1950 25kop USSR

USSR 1449-1454

Celebrating the daring designs of Soviet avant-garde film posters with collector Susan Pack

Processional Cross (qäqwami mäsqäl)

Nose Ring

Prayer book with case (mahdar)

Wall painting of the Virgin and Child with donors

Pendant Icon: St. George, Virgin and Child Enthroned

Processional Cross

Processional Cross

Tälsäm or yä bərana kətab (healing scroll)

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Book of the Gospels

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Healing Scroll

Healing Scroll

Hand Cross (mäsqäl)

Bowl Lyre

Double-Sided Gospel Leaf

Yäʿğğ mäsqäl (hand cross)

Rattle

Tälsäm or yä bərana kətab (healing scroll)

Healing Scroll

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Icon triptych of Ewosṭatewos and eight of his disciples

Mäsqälä qǝddase (liturgical cross)

Double Diptych Icon Pendant

Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary) prayer book

Processional Cross

Diplôme d'honneur. Golikoff (USSR). 1925

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Fragment of an Embroidered Textile

Textile Fragment

Tiraz Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Tiraz Fragment from an Ikat Shawl

Textile Fragment

Necklace

Necklace

Fragment of a shawl with inscription

Astrolabe of ‘Umar ibn Yusuf ibn ‘Umar ibn ‘Ali ibn Rasul al-Muzaffari

Necklace

Textile Fragment

Ikat Textile Fragment

Fragment of a Mantle

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Textile Fragment

Pendant with Coins, One of a Pair

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant

Pendant with Coins, One of a Pair

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Girdle Clasp

Pendant with Fishes and Amulets, Part of a Set

Ring

Ring

"Prophet Muhammad Preaching", Folio from a Maqtal-i Al-i Rasul of Lami'i Chelebi

Tripod Candlestick

Vase with Five Discs

Three-Footed Bowl

Fragmentary Plate with Engraved Designs

Jar

"Design for the Water Clock of the Peacocks", from the Kitab fi ma'rifat al-hiyal al-handasiyya (Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices) by Badi' al-Zaman b. al Razzaz al-Jazari

"Figure for Use at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Ablutions Basin of Yemeni Sultan al-Mujahid Sayf al-Din 'Ali

"Design for a Clock in the Form of an Elephant with an Indian Driver", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

"Design for a Cup to Serve Wine at Drinking Parties", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

"Design on Each Side for Waterwheel Worked by Donkey Power", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Goblet with Incised Designs

"The Elephant Clock", Folio from a Book of the Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by al-Jazari

Candlestick Base with Interlacing Dragons

Textile Medallion