LNS 15 R
Woollen “Shrub” carpet, the field of horizontal orientation, both the field and border with rows of a variety of flowering plants (those of the field staggered, those of the border forming a single straight line)
LNS 10 R
Pile carpet laid out as a four-section garden (Persian, chahar bagh) with representations of flowering trees and flower beds, divided by water channels, and with a central pond with four peacocks
LNS 114 T
Talismanic shirt with decorative roundels, escutcheons and a cartouche filled with pious inscriptions in naskhi and attenuated thuluth, square compartments with the complete text of the Qur’an, and borders with the ninety-nine ‘Beautiful Names’ (al-Asma’ al-Husna) of God
LNS 27 R
Fragmentary multiple-niche pile prayer carpet (saff), the lower fields of the niches with a dense composition of two systems of foliated scrolls, the spandrels of the niches with a composition of half-palmettes and flowers on spiralling stems; preserved main border with an alternation of cartouches and four-lobed compartments filled with floral and half-palmette arabesques
LNS 982 T a
Linen, silk and silver wire textile fragment with rows of affronted birds framing a human face, running hares and dotted rosettes
LNS 14 T a,b
Two fragments from the same silk textile (from a garment or furnishings?), featuring a seated prince and an attendant in a landscape setting
LNS 219 T
Fragment from a linen robe with a tiraz inscription invoking God’s blessings on the caliph (probably the Abbasid caliph Ja‘far al-Muqtadir, (r. 295-317 AH/908-929 AD with interruption)
LNS 1094 T
Cotton shawl embroidered with vegetal designs and a lover’s lament in Persian language (naskhi script) mentioning the city of Bamyan, in Afghanistan
LNS 443 T
Silk panel from a garment with pairs of sphinxes, and a repetition of the word ‘glory’ in Kufic script along the upper edge
LNS 34 T
Fragmentary silk textile composed as a series of horizontal bands, alternating between naskhi inscriptions in cartouches (‘Everlasting happiness and steadfast glory [to its owner]’), quadrupeds, angular guilloches, and medallions with geometric star roundels on a ground of half-palmette designs
