Photos: Navina Najat Haidar
Photographed by Raymond Meier1/13A Different View
Haidar, in a Chadwick Bell jacket, a Comme des Garçons shirt, and Talbots pants, seated on a visitors’ bench in front of carved wooden arches in the Mughal South Asia gallery.
Hair, Bok-Hee for TRESemmé; makeup, Rebecca Restrepo.
Sittings Editor: Kathryn Neale.
Photographed by Raymond Meier2/13Intricate Treasures
The Damascus Room, which features the Met’s reassembly of an 18th-century reception chamber from a Syrian residence.
3/13Divine Inspiration
A mihrab, or prayer niche, from 14th-century Iran.
4/13Study of a Nilgai (Blue Bull), Leaf from the Emperor’s Album, ca. 1620
Painter Mansur (active ca. 1589–1626), Calligrapher Mir 'Ali (d. ca. 1550)
India
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York5/13Ceramic Plate, mid-16th century
Iznik, Turkey
Stonepaste; painted in turquoise and two hues of blue under a transparent glaze
Photographed by Raymond Meier6/13The Moroccan Court
Photo: Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York7/13Koç Family Gallery
8/13Mango-Shaped Flask; Rock crystal, set with gold, enamel, rubies, and emeralds; mid-17th century India.
9/13Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Gallery
10/13Tughra (Official Signature) of Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent; Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper: ca. 1555–60; Istabul, Turkey.
11/13The Damascus Room (18th century)
12/13The Lovers, dated Tuesday, 8 Shawwal A.H. 1039/ May 21, 1630 A.D., by Riza-yi `Abbasi (ca. 1565–1635); Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper; Isfahan, Iran.
13/13Patti Cadby Birch Gallery