Indian, Islamic, Himalayan and South-East Asian Art

A FOLIO FROM A QUR'AN, PROBABLY BUKHARA, CENTRAL ASIA, 14TH CENTURY the text in 11 lines of bold muhaqqaq with sura headings in kufic decorated i...

TWO MAMLUK QURAN FOLIOS WITH ILLUMINATION ATTRIBUTABLE TO SANDAL, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH/15TH CENTURY the first comprising Qur’an 89:11-24 (in part)...

A QUR'AN SECTION, MAMLUK, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH/15TH CENTURY a manuscript comprising a section of the Qur'an, the text composed of 7 lines of bold...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, AFGHANISTAN, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY with an illuminated double page frontispiece decorated in gold and colour, the opening page...

KAMAL AL-DIN ISMA'IL ISFAHANI (D. 1240 AD), DIVAN, SAFAVID PERSIA, LATE 16TH CENTURY a manuscript in Persian on cream paper, 301ff., each folio wi...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN SECTION, CHINA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY comprising Juz 19 of a Qur'an, the opening double page with elaborate illuminated head pi...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN SECTION, CHINA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY comprising juz 25, an opening double page illuminated with colour on gold depicting borde...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN SECTION, CHINA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY comprising Juz 27 of a Quran, the opening double page with elaborate illuminated head pi...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN SECTION, CHINA CIRCA 18TH CENTURY comprising Juz 26 of a Quran, the opening double page with elaborate illuminated head pie...

A SMALL ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, PERSIA, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY a manuscript in arabic, the opening double page illuminated in gilt and colours, each page ...

A RARE QUR'AN FROM THE HORN OF AFRICA, POSSIBLY HARAR, ETHIOPIA, 19TH CENTURY the text composed in 13 lines of cursive script, red ruled double bo...

THREE LACQUERED PAPIER-MACHE PANELS, PERSIA, 19TH CENTURY Variously depicting childbirth, circumcision and childcare, possibly formerly comprisin...

HAFIZ (D.1389-90), DIVAN, SAFAVID PERSIA, DATED 1574 A.D. an incomplete manuscript in Persian of the Divan of Hafiz (d. 1389-90), with three illus...

SHAYKH MUSLIH AL-DIN SA'DI (D. 1291-92), GULISTAN AND BUSTAN, SAFAVID PERSIA, 16TH/17TH CENTURY comprising incomplete copies of the the two texts ...

HUSAYN WA-IZ AL-KASHAFI (D.1504-5), QUR'ANIC COMMENTARY, PERSIA OR INDIA, 16TH/17TH CENTURY a manuscript in Persian, with an illuminated opening h...

FATH-'ALI SABA KASHANI (D. 1823-4), KHUDAVAND-NAMA, PERSIA, DATED 1844-5 A.D. copied by Fath-'Ali Shah Munshi, a manuscript in Persian, with an e...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, QAJAR PERSIA, DATED 1812 A.D., BY ZAYN AL-'ABIDIN AL-TALIQANI AL-KARKABUDI a manuscript in arabic, a finely decorated openi...

NASIR AL-DIN TUSI (D.1274), TAHRIR KITAB USUL AL-HANDASAH LI-UQLIDIS, QAJAR PERSIA, DATED 1845-6 a manuscript of Tusi's recension of Euclid’s Ele...

A COMPILATION OF SHI'I PRAYERS, PERSIA, 18TH/19TH CENTURY a manuscript of Shi'i prayers in Arabic, the text largely comprising 9 lines of cursive ...

ALI AL-QARI AL-HARAWI (D. 1605-06), AL-HIZB AL-A'ZAM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1723-4 A.D. a manuscript copied by Dervish Muhammad, the opening page ...

AN ILLUMINATED EXEGESIS OF THE QUR'AN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, COPIED BY OSMAN, DATED 1764 A.D. a copy of the exegesis, or tafsir, of the Qur'an, in Otto...

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, BY SALIM AL-ZAGRAVI, DATED 1876-7 A.D., a manuscript in arabic, with a opening double page illuminated in g...

SELECTIONS FROM THE QUR'AN, PROBABLY KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY, COPIED BY SIRAJ AL-DIN a manuscript in arabic, opening with a double page illuminated ...

KHWAJA 'ABDULLAH ANSARI (D.1088), MUNAJAT, PROBABLY AFGHANISTAN, DATED 1883 a manuscript in Persian, a frontispiece of nasta'liq in blue within an...

A MAGNIFICENT CALLIGRAPHIC COMPOSITION IN THE FORM OF A LION in the name of Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, signed Safdar 'Ali Ibn Muhammad Khan Beg, Kabu...

FIVE SURAS OF AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, PROBABLY KASHMIR, SIGNED MUHAMMAD TAQI, DATED 1810-11 A.D a manuscript in Arabic containing five suras of th...

A LEATHER BOOKBINDING, PROBABLY OTTOMAN TURKEY, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY with gilded and stamped decoration in the form of a central lobed cartouche wi...

A MUGHAL INSCRIBED MARBLE PANEL, NORTHERN INDIA, 17TH/18TH CENTURY of lobed arched form, one side with naskh inscription flanked by fish and lotu...

A SILK CALLIGRAPHIC TEXTILE, OTTOMAN, CIRCA 17TH CENTURY with white calligraphy on a red ground, unframed, 44 by 75cmThis is a form of textile use...

A BALUCH LONG RUG, EAST PERSIA, 20TH CENTURY the trellis field with with diagonal rows of madder and indigo guls, approximately 260 by 115cm

A TURKMAN FLATWEAVE, WEST TURKESTAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY the ivory, walnut and madder banded field with overall small decorative motifs, approxima...

A 'DRAGON' SOUMAKH RUG, CAUCASUS OR NORTH IRAN, LATE 20TH CENTURY with the 'dragon' design of large stylised winged palmettes, gul border, approxi...

A JAFF KURD LONG BAGFACE, AZERBAIJAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY dark blue ground with guls, yellow rosette border, approximately 65 by 106cm

A KURDISH RUG, CIRCA 1900 the yellow plant trelliswork field with red and blue borders, approximately 184 by 110cm

A LARGE BAKHTIARI RUG, WEST PERSIA, EARLY 20TH CENTURY the ivory field with entwined flowering tress and a pair of turtle doves, within a floral b...

A YOMUT ENSI, WEST TURKESTAN, EARLY 20TH CENTURY the madder quartered field with small cruciform motifs, rosette elem, 180 x 122cm approx.

A Q'ASHQAI BAGFACE, SOUTHWEST PERSIA, 20TH CENTURY the dark blue field with overall octagonal guls, approximately 58 by 54cm; together with a Sout...

AN UNUSUAL SQUARE SHAPED MALAYER RUG, WEST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900 the dark blue herati pattern field with small madder red spandrels, approximately 1...

AN UZBEK KILIM (GADJERI), UZBEKISTAN, 20TH CENTURY the field wiht a bold overall 'dazzler' pattern of concentric diamonds in ivory, walnut brown a...

A TEKKE CARPET, WEST TURKESTAN, CIRCA 1900 the madder field with five columns of ten guls, within a sunburst bull border and serrated leaf trellis...

A SISTAN FLATWEAVE, EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1920 weft faced brocading, the field with multiple geometric motifs in horizontal stripes, approximately 27...

A BALUCH RUG, EAST PERSIA, CIRCA 1900 the dark blue field with overall gul trellis and similar border, banded elems, approximately 200 by 112cm

A VERAMIN KILIM, NORTH PERSIA, 20TH CENTURY with bands of polychrome stepped diagonal stripes, interspersed with horizontal striped bands, approxi...

A TEKKE CARPET, WEST TURKESTAN, LATE 19TH CENTURY with five columns or eleven guls, panelled gul border, banded elems, approximately 272 by 219cm

THREE OTTOMAN EMBROIDERED TOWELS, 19TH CENTURY each of long rectangular form, two with woven stripes, the cream coloured ground with polychrome an...

THREE OTTOMAN EMBROIDERED TOWELS, 19TH CENTURY each of long rectangular form, one with sequinned tasselled ends, the cream coloured ground with st...

A SILK EMBROIDERED LINEN PANEL, ALGERIA, CIRCA 1850 from a scarf, with elaborate leafy arabesque design in red, dark and light blue, yellow and g...

AN AGRA RUG, NORTH INDIA, LATE 19TH CENTURY ‡ 208 by 176cm. approx.An Agra rug of almost identical design was sold in Sotheby's, 7 November 2017, ...

A HANDWOVEN WOOL PILE SADDLE CLOTH, PERSIA, 19TH CENTURY of elongated octagonal form, depicting a portrait of Shah , wearing uniform with nastali...

A LONG BEADWORK PANEL, GUJARAT, WESTERN INDIA, FIRST HALF 20TH CENTURY in the form of a long rectangular frieze, with polychrome designs on white...

A LARGE EMBROIDERED HANGING (KALAGA), BURMA (NOW MYANMAR), 19TH CENTURY cotton with felt, metal thread, bead and sequin applique, probably depict...

A SAMANID SLIP PAINTED BOWL, PERSIA OR CENTRAL ASIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY underglaze painted and sgraffitoed earthenware, decorated with two large b...

A SAMANID SLIP PAINTED BOWL, PERSIA OR CENTRAL ASIA, CIRCA 10TH CENTURY underglaze painted earthenware, decorated with central stylised bird moti...

A NISHAPUR POTTERY BOWL, PERSIA, 10TH/11TH CENTURY slip painted earthenware, decorated in greenish white on dark brown ground with a complex arab...

A NISHAPUR POTTERY BOWL, PERSIA, 10TH CENTURY the interior with slip and copper oxide decoration forming a cruciform kufic design, 8cm high; 21cm ...

A KASHAN TURQUOISE-GLAZED SILHOUETTE WARE JUG, PERSIA, 12TH/13TH CENTURY of baluster form on ring foot, the gently flared neck with strap handle a...

A 'SULTANABAD' BOWL, PERSIA, 14TH CENTURY underglaze painted fritware, with radiating floral design around a central roundel painted in black with...

THREE TURQUOISE GLAZED BOWLS, EASTERN IRAN OR BAMIYAN, CIRCA 12TH CENTURY fritware, each with carved low relief designs, the two smaller with mang...

A KASHAN TURQUOISE GLAZED POTTERY ACQUAMANILE IN THE FORM OF A BULL, PERSIA, CIRCA 1200 of stylised form, with opening connected to loop handle o...

A KASHAN TURQUOISE GLAZED VASE, PERSIA, CIRCA 13TH CENTURY fritware, of bulbous form, the sides with spiral design of carved fluting, emphasised w...