Damascus Ware fine antique inlaid timber frame with bone highlights, housing an Islamic fired plaster bas relief doorway, 19th century, 51 x 39.5 cm overall
An antique Islamic Indo-Persian illuminated manuscript page, 19th century. One loose folio with recto, finely illustrated with images of two hornbills. Ink and opaque watercolour on paper, mounted in lucite panel. 34.8 x 18.4 cm, Note: The text is written…
A Mughal miniature painting, Northern India, late18th/early 19th century, Burraq with Archangel Gabriel, Farsi Calligraphic panel verso, gouache, gold and pigment on wasli paper, painted with a Burraq, the lightning fast glimmering creature that carried…
Kashmiri Islamic manuscript. An antique Quran manuscript leaf in nashki script, one loose folio with recto, 18th century, 16.5 x 9.2 cm, note: this fine manuscript page is purportedly from a broken Quran scribed in Kashmir for the Nawab Amir Khan in 1727.…
Quantity Sotheby's catalogues on Islamic Art, dated 1976-80, London new Bond Street, including the Hagop Kevorkian Fund, Islamic works of Art and ancient & Islamic glass and fine Oriental miniatures and manuscripts (quantity)
A pair of Islamic manuscript Pages, circa 19th century, gouache on paper, one depicting figures at a camp with tents within a forest, the other depicting a seated noble figure surrounded by attendants within a forest, the latter inscribed with Islamic…
A Syrian parcel gilt and silver Koranic box circa 1880 with chased and engraved decoration and cartouches of Koranic scripture amid backgrounds and borders of interlocking Islamic trellises, 3 cm high x 8 cm wide x 5 cm deep. Provenance: Purchased from…
A large Uzbek Mecca inscribed copper and brass ewer 19th century, the body is engraved with bands of scrolling flowers and leaf motifs, terminating in a flared foot, flanked by a 'S' shaped handle, 34 cm high. Provenance: Purchased from Michael Backman,…
Islamic Qu'ran manuscript two Illuminated double sided calligraphy Folios. Probably 15th century. Tears, fixed to mount with masking tape. Provenance: A former diplomatic family based in the ACT (collection formed in the 1950s & 60s); by descent to the…
Leather bound Qu'ran. Provenance: A former diplomatic family based in the ACT (collection formed in the 1950s & 60s); by descent to the current owner, 20 x 10 cm (pages)
Illuminated Qu'ran / Koran . Provenance: A former diplomatic family based in the ACT (collection formed in the 1950s & 60s); by descent to the current owner, height 16 cm
An 18th century Persian Qu'ran manuscript page, depicting the story of Joseph, gouache on vellum, with script verso, 16.5 x 27 cm within double side view perspex box frame