ORIENTAL ART HAMMER AUCTION 18 JANUARY 2024

Persian text, two lines elegant black nastaliq script within clouds on gold and polychrome ground, the outer border heavily gilt and decorated wit...

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper. Painting: 24.5 by 32 cm. With frame 35.5 by 43.5 cm.

Gouache colours heightened with gold on paper, depicting a beauty adorned with gold jewellery, combing her hair. Painting: 23 by 21 cm.

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper, the lion is attacking an elephant on whose back is a howdah containing a price with his mistress att...

Gouache and watercolour pigments heightened with gold on textile, depicting a couple playing a music on a harp instrument, wearing elegant robes a...

Seated holding a rose. 19.5 by 25.5 cm.

Pigments on pata or cloth, depicting symbolic representations of the ritual topography of city-temple, pilgrimage souvenirs painted by the heredit...

Opaque pigments and gold on paper. 23 by 14 cm.

An Arabic manuscript on paper, upper line in bold black thuluth script, three lines beneath in neat naskh script, five lower cartouches giving t...

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper. Painting: 15 by 22 cm. With frame: 28 by 36 cm.

Four coloured copper engravings of: Aegypt, Africa Interior, Africa Propria, Mavretania et Nvmidia. 24 by 37 cm. A View of Candia ( Hera...

Seven coloured copper engravings of: -Macedonia, Thessalia, Epiris - Asia Minor - Pannonia - Oriens - Sarmatia - Thracia Antiqua By Chri...

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

An Ottoman calligraphic panel, Arabic manuscript on paper, written in large elegant thuluth script, shaped as circles within each other and dated ...

An illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Majnun opens the door of a maqam surrounded by a crow...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young man wearing a sky-blue robe with elaborate turban, a young woman wearing a gilt splashed red robe, ...

Showing an interior with three figures with floral frames. 24.5 by 18 cm.

Ink on paper with the use of gold, inner borders decorated with animals and vegetation in colors and gold, outer border with illuminated panels cu...

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper. Text: Quran 2 surah Al-Baqarah v.255. The text of the Throne Verse begins at the horse’s head;...

The holy Camel when it passes along the town of Cairo in the very extraordinary annual procession preparatory to the setting forward of the great ...

A printed general view of Mecca during the Hajj, the Kabaa in the centre surrounded by the four Sunni Maqams, zamzam well. In the background hou...

Arabic compositions applied on to natural leaves in gold thuluth, mounted on black archival boards, glazed and framed. In the form of a stork, t...

11 volumes. Comprising: Tokyo National Museum, vol. 1; National Museum of Korea, Seoul, vol. 2; Museum Pusat, Jakarta, vol. 3; Iran Bastan Mus...

Opaque lapis-lazuli based paint, and gold on paper. This splendid calligraphic lion is an example of zoomorphic writing where calligraphers blende...

A printed book about the History of Napoleon I is a book that examines the birth of Napoleon, his modernity, his rise in the ranks of the military...

This book is one of three volumes that chronicles the trip undertaken in 1806 and 1807 with a description of lost civilizations where history and ...

Sahih Al-Akhabr in the lineage of the good fatimid mastersArabic manuscript on paper, 146ff. with 25ll. to each page written in black ink in beau...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 42 ff. with 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 5 lines, written in very elegant black muhaqqaq script, in gold ink and outl...

An Arabic manuscript on paper, 71 leaves with 31 lines to each page, written in black naskh script. Catchwords and titles in red ink, the upper p...

Arabic manuscript on paper, the backside with 5ll. written in large muhaqqaq script, gold rosette verse markers outlined in black and pointed by b...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 16 leaves, 7 lines to the page written in elegant black naskh script in black ink on a gilt ground, ruled in polychrom...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each folio with 15 lines, written in black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointe...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each folio with 17 lines, written in black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointe...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in brown Maghribi script, catchwords in red and green ink, polychrome verse rosette markers outlined...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each page with 19ll. written in black naskh script within clouds against a gold ground, surah headings in red thuluth ...

Persian manuscript on paper, 193 ff. with 14 lines to the page arranged in two columns separated by gilt floral scrolls, written in nasta’liq scri...

Manuscript on paper, Ink and gold on burnished paper, with 7 lines of alternating elegant gold and black diwani script, a monogram and a signature...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each page with 14 lines written in bold black naskh script in clouds reserved against a gold sprinkled ground, gold ro...

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...

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 backed on silk, written in naskh, thuluth, muhaqqaq and angular Kufic scripts in various colors. 17 by 470 cm. The s...

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 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 ...

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

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each folio with six lines of elegant sepia Maghribi script. Gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointed ...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each page with 9 lines written in maghribi script in sepia ink, double brown roundel verse markers, red diacritic mar...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 11 lines to the page written in elegant naskh script in black ink, gold roundels outlined in black and pointed by oran...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 291ff. each page written in black naskh script within double red borders, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black...

Poetry, Persian manuscript on paper, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black nasta'liq script arranged in two columns and divided by a gold double ...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in black Maghribi script, catchwords in gilt ink outlined in black, gold verse rosette markers outli...

Two volumes, 'new edition', folding plan of Mecca, 3 further tables (2 folding), offsetting, translated by George Sale, bookplate to front pastedo...

Persian manuscript on paper, 90 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, 16 lines to each page, written in black nastaliq script, catchwords and titles in red in...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines of black naskh script, tajwid in red, within gold and black rules, gold and polychrome r...

Arabic manuscript on paper, written in large gilt thuluth script, depicting a large flower shaped decoration consisting of a chain of the Arabic l...

Printed in black and white on thick paper. The continent showing the city/town names, such as Hejaz, Yemen, Hadramout, Najid, and the Arabian dese...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 19 leaves with 11 lines to each page, written in thuluth, naskh and muhaqqaq script. The bismallah of each surah writt...

Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 53ff. with 2 fly-leaves, written in black ink, titles and catchwords in red ink, ruled in red border. Large c...

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 paper, complete Quran, 10 lines to each page, written in large black naskh script, catchwords in large script, diacritics and...