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Islamic and Indian Art

21 May 2024 | starting at 11:00 BST

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211 lots available

A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum North Africa or Andalusia, 9th-10th Century

A leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written on pink paper Andalusia, late 12th-13th Century

A rare Mamluk firman Egypt, dated 23rd Sha'ban 874/25th February 1470

An illuminated Ottoman Qur'an, attributed to the scribe Hasan Uskudari (d. 1614) Turkey, Constantinople, late 16th Century/early 17th Century, bearing the date AH 1012/AD 1604-05

A large illuminated Safavid Qur'an Persia, early 16th Century

An illustrated leaf, and a text leaf, from Nizami's Kherad-nameh, the second book of the Iskandar-nameh, depicting Plato seated in the desert, attracting wild animals with his music Persia, perhaps Qazwin, late 16th Century

An illustrated leaf from a manuscript of Nizami's Khamsa, depicting Bahram Gur with the Indian Princess in the black pavilion Persia, probably Shiraz, late 16th Century

A youth reading a book and holding an apricot Safavid Persia, 17th Century

M. B. Dickson and S. C. Welch, The Houghton Shahnameh, in two volumes Cambridge, MA, and London, 1981(2)

An illuminated Qur'an, commissioned by Amir Guneh Khan Qajar, and completed for his son Nasrullah Qajar, copied by Ibn Muhammad Shafi' al-Tabrizi Qajar Persia, dated 20th Shawwal 1239/30th June 1823, interlinear translation and marginal commentaries dated 13th Safar 1252/30th May 1836

A large illuminated Qur'an, copied by Muhammad Rida Qajar Persia, dated 14th Jumada II 1245/11th December 1829

A large lithographed copy of Firdausi's Shahnama, copied by the well-known nasta'liq calligrapher Muhammad Husain 'Imad al-Kuttab, with 41 full-page illustrations by more than one artist, including Musavvir al-Mulk Qajar Persia, Tehran, composition of the text completed in AH 1321/AD 1903-04, the copying on 26th Safar 1322/12th May 1904

Jalal al-Din Muhammad Isfahani, Tuhfat al-Wuzara', A Gift to Ministers, copied by Fath 'Ali Tonekaboni Qajar Persia, dated Jumadi II 1276/December 1859-January 1860

A small illuminated Qur'an North India, 17th Century

An illuminated Ottoman firman concerning the arrears to be paid to a certain A'isha Usta bint 'Abd Allah for the job of prayer reciting (du'a-gu'i), funded by the Sultan Ghawri waqf in Aleppo Ottoman Empire, probably Aleppo, dated 4th Dhu'l-Qa'da 1213/9th April 1799

A firman awarding the 5th Class of the Mecidiye Order to Lieutenant Colonel William Samuel Newton of the Coldstream Guards for his bravery in battle during the Crimean War Ottoman Turkey, dated to the beginning of the month of Rabi' II 1274/early 1857

An illuminated manuscript of Al-Jazuli's Dala'il al-Khayrat, prayers, in a contemporary decorated leather carrying case Sub-Saharan Africa (from the Sudan to Nigeria), circa 1900, colophon dated simply 'Wednesday, in the afternoon'

A carved wood panel North Africa or Umayyad Spain, 10th/ 11th Century

A group of twenty Fatimid pottery filters Egypt, 10th-11th Century(20)

An unglazed moulded pottery jug Mesopotamia, 11th/ 12th Century

A Kashan lustre pottery vessel Persia, 12th/13th century

A Raqqa underglaze-painted pottery jug Syria, 12th/ 13th Century

A monumental Khorasan pierced bronze lampstand Persia, 12th Century

A Khorasan bronze mace head Persia, 12th Century

An Ilkhanid engraved brass casket Persia, 13th/ 14th Century

A Timurid underglaze-painted pottery tile Persia, second half of the 15th Century

A Timurid moulded pottery tile Central Asia, 14th Century

A Mamluk silver-inlaid bronze candlestick base Egypt or Syria, 14th Century

A Timurid moulded pottery mihrab tile fragment Central Asia, second half of the 14th Century

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