FINE ISLAMIC ART HAMMER AUCTION 22 JUNE 2023

Krishna watches his mother Yashoda churning butter and requests her to let him eat it. 27 by 16.5 cm.PROVENANCE Private collection, German...

A sakhi brings a message from Radha to Krishna. Krishna requests the gopis for an audience with Radha. 29 by 19.5 cm. PROVENANCE Private coll...

Opaque pigments and gold on paper, within an inner golden border and an outer ivory border. Probably by a royal court artist of the Punjab Rulers...

Nabha or Delhi, circa August 1858, gouache and gold on paper. 46 by 31 cm.PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany.CATALOGUE NOTEMaharaja Jaswa...

An album with nine different views of the Golden Temple.Gouache on paper.Album: 33 by 26 cm.

Gouache heightened with gold on paper. Krishna gazes at Radha, with gold-outlined green nimbuse, set in a palace scene with gopis on all sides o...

Leaf from a Ragamala series, Desakh Ragini. Gouache and gold on paper. 32 by 19 cm.CATALOGUE NOTE Ragamala paintings are inspired by a gen...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper. Delhi School. 44 by 27.5 cm.

Raag Deepak. An illustration from a ragamala series: a prince and a maiden seated on a palace terrace with attendants. Gouache on paper. Heighten...

Opaque pigments on paper. The lady seated on a Golden throne attaching her earrings with the aid of a mirror, with attendants and musician on an o...

Gouache on paper, the black and white buck stands against a green landscape, between minor gold rules on margins on buff ground, highlighted marbl...

Opaque pigments on paper, depicted in a classical stance after her killing spree, her tongue struck out, wearing a belt of hands and a necklace of...

Ink and wash on paper, partly pounced along outline, laid down on paper. Largest: 22.5 by 17.5 cm. Smallest: 12 by 11 cm.

Pencil, ink and gouache on paper, lines of ?Devanagari above, narrow yellow border, black rules, buff margins, the reverse of some of the folios w...

Opaque pigments on textile. 94 by 63 cm.

Gouache heightened with gold on textile, a nimbate Emperor Akbar is depicted in old age, wearing gold flowered pants, a light cream Jama with a re...

Gouache and opaque pigments on textile. 89.5 by 63 cm.

Opaque pigments on cloth, the Goddess Padmavati seats in the centre of the upper mandala, other deities and door keepers (dvarapala) around within...

Opaque and gold pigments on textile, the standing tirthankara with rows of animals and figures at his chest and upper arms, the jambudvipa at his ...

Opaque pigments and gold on cloth, the Goddess Padmavati stands in the centre of the upper mandala, other deities around within square panels, eac...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper. 37 by 30 cm.PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany.CATALOGUE NOTEThis painting depicts the court of the...

Opaque water color on paper. 50.5 by 39 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany. CATALOGUE NOTE Lotus-filled lakes and streams cours...

Priests worship Shri Nathji of Nathdwara, Rajasthan and Tilkayat Dauji II celebrating Nandamahotsav before Shri Nathji(Kota). Gouache on paper. ...

One book on Jainism with two miniatures and dated SAMVAT1902. The other BHAGWAT GITA. 20 by 13 cm.14 by 9 cm.

A Ramayana by Tulsidas with 53 illustrations. Printed upon request by Miyan Chiraguddin Sirajuddin. Printed at Victoria Press, Lahore.

Gouache on paper. An illustrated manuscript with fifteen leafs and eight miniatures. The name of the book is Chinta Mani Granth written by Ram Pra...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 30 volumes, 5 lines to the page, written in Sini script in black ink, verses separated by red florets, surah headings ...

Comprising the 4th and 5th juz’, Arabic manuscript on paper, 36 leaves, each folio with 11 lines of elegant black naskh script, surah headings in ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, interlinear Persian translation, 14 lines to each page, written in black Kufic script, diacritics in red, rosette vers...

Arabic manuscript on paper, written in Maghribi and angular Kufic script in black and red ink. 135 by 15.5 cm.Surah Al-Ikhlas is written 12 tim...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 33 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, 5 lines to each page, written in very elegant large black muhaqqaq script, gold rosette v...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines. The first, central and the last line in very elegant black thuluth script, the other 12...

Comprising the 15th juz’, Arabic manuscript on paper, 18 leaves plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11 lines of black thuluth script, Basamallah ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with later added interlinear Persian translation, 45 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, 9 lines to each page in elegant black m...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 20 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, each page with 9 lines. The first, central and the last line in very elegant black ...

Arabic manuscript on paper in scroll form, written in black Ghubar script of the whole Quran, the headpiece with gold and royal blue decoration en...

Arabic manuscript on paper depicting prayers in honour of the Prophet Muhammad, 108 leaves with 3 fly-folio, each folio with 11 lines written in e...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, marginal occasional notes indica...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 11-13 line per page, written in black naskh script, surah headings in large thuluth script outlined in black, the Basm...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 17 lines of large black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, gold rosette verse markers outline...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 9 lines to each page, written in black Muhaqqaq script, with gold rosette verse markers pointed by polychrome dots, di...

Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, each folio with 21 lines written in black naskh and nastaliq script, parts with Persian interlinear tran...

Arabic manuscript on paper, in 2 volumes, the first 49 leaves, plus 2 fly-leaves, the second 158 leaves, plus 3 flyleaves (2 detached), each 21 li...

Cylindrical pot supported by a ring foot, small shoulder and low neck with rim round. The decoration reproduces an inscription in Kufic, which rep...

A Kashan lustre pottery rosewater sprinkler with squat circular body and tapering neck with everted rim, painted in dark and yellowish brown on a ...

The octagonal tile painted with a central square panel issuing scrolling floral designs from each corner, the central square panel filled with fou...

Siliceous paste. The thin-walled, fragile vase is supported by a small annular foot; its spherical but squashed body ends in a vertical rim. Th...

Of deep conical form, painted in lustre heightened in cobalt blue and turquoise on a cream ground, with a central medallion of swimming fish again...

Ode to God, the forty sayings of the Imam 'Ali, Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 18 leaves, each folio with 7 lines of large black Arabic n...

Black and red ink on paper heightened with gold, 16 leaves each folio with 4 linesof elegant black nastaliq script written diagonally, smaller li...

This medicine jar is cylindrical in shape, but with a slightly flared wall; it has a small shoulder and a straight rim, and is supported by a smal...

Persian manuscript on cream paper, 26 leaves with 11 lines of black nastaliq, headings in gold, copious gold and polychrome floral illumination th...

Persian manuscript on paper, 12 leaves with 3 fly-leaves , each page with 7 lines written in black nastaliq script in clouds reserved against a sp...

Poetry. Persian manuscript on paper, 45 leaves plus two fly-leaves of different colors, each folio with 10 lines of black nastaliq script arrange...

Arabic manuscript on paper, comprising 14 panels of calligraphy on album pages laid down on card, each panel with a large line of text in nastaliq...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 2 leaves with 5 lines to each page, written in elegant black naskh script, gold verse markers enclosing the word "Ayat...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 110 leaves each page with 17 lines written in black naskh script, titles and catchwords in red ink, ruled in green en ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, interlinear Persian translation, with 7 lines to each page, written in large elegant black muhaqqaq script, with gold ...

Richly decorated in purple, black and gold, the central panel of the page with an elaborate tree and the second with foliage and birds, surrounde...

A sword (saif) with flat slightly tapering double-edged blade, on one side with inscriptions in naskh script, the green mina enameled silver hilt ...