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Never before has Asia Week New York offered such a large adventure to seekers of Far Eastern treasures—all on view for the first time. Acquired from a private collection in the U. New York Although black-glazed vases with russet decoration of birds or flowers of this form and from this period are well represented in public and private collections, examples with iron-oxide 'partridge-feather' splashes are quite rare. It was crafted in Mughal or Deccan, India. The footprints of Vishnu Vishnupada are important symbols in Vaishnavism, and places where his feet came down to earth are sacred. Made in either of the legendary courts of Bijapur or Golconda, in South India, in the late 15th or early 16th century, this lavishly decorated folio is calligraphed with the 99 names of God. The result of a thermoluminescence test on the work confirmed a dating to the early 14th century.