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Seated Ruler by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Seated Ruler

Unrecorded maker

2000–1700 BCE · Sculpture, limestone with shell inclusions

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Painted Vase with Ruler and Scribe by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Painted Vase with Ruler and Scribe

Unrecorded maker

600–900 · Ceramic, pottery with burnished, colored slips

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A Ruler Presents a Document to Visiting Nobles by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Ruler Presents a Document to Visiting Nobles

Unrecorded maker

c. 1700–1720 · Painting, Gum tempera and gold on paper

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Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Bahram Gur Slays a Dragon (verso), from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi (940–1019 or 1025), known as the Great Mongol Shahnama

Unrecorded maker

1330–35 · Manuscript, opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper

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Shah Jahan by Rembrandt van Rijn, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Shah Jahan

Rembrandt van Rijn (d. 1669)

c. 1656–61 · Drawing, pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash

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A Ruler Seated on a Terrace Worshipping at a Shrine of Radha and Krishna by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

A Ruler Seated on a Terrace Worshipping at a Shrine of Radha and Krishna

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c. 1800 · Painting, gum tempera and gold on paper

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Three of Sri Tung Bahadur's Favorite Wives and His Youngest Son by Bourne & Shepherd, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Three of Sri Tung Bahadur's Favorite Wives and His Youngest Son

Bourne & Shepherd (d. 2016)

c. 1870 · Photograph, albumen print

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Ancestral Altar Tusk by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Ancestral Altar Tusk

Unrecorded maker

c. 1820 · Sculpture, Elephant ivory

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Mughal ruler Humayun defeating the Afghans before reconquering India, folio from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602) by an unrecorded maker, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Mughal ruler Humayun defeating the Afghans before reconquering India, folio from an Akbar-nama (Book of Akbar) of Abu’l Fazl (Indian, 1551–1602)

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c. 1590 · Painting, Gum tempera, ink, and gold on paper

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Commemorative figure (lefem) by Ateu Atsa, The Cleveland Museum of Art

Commemorative figure (lefem)

Ateu Atsa (d. 1910)

mid-1800s–1910 · Sculpture, wood

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