ANCIENT & ISLAMIC ART

Circa 1100-1300 AD Mamluk or earlier possibly Ayyubid or Fatimid, wooden panel with detailed carving in high relief. Traces of multi colour floral...

Near East or Persia, Ca. 12th century AD A lovely brass teardrop-shaped fitting with protruding finials intricately decorated with knotted embosse...

Khorosan, Afganistan or Egypt Ca. 12th century AD A heavy bronze mortar and pestle. The mortar comprises an out-turned rim, a cylindrical body dec...

Persia or Central Asia, Ca. 16th century AD A rare cast bronze jug of a globular body, resting on a flattened base, gently tapering from the mid-b...

Persia, Ca. 12th-13th century AD A brass copper jug of a wide globular body, resting on hoofed tripod feet, gently tapering to a short cylindrical...

Egypt, Near East, Ca. 9th-10th century AD A beautiful marvered glass sprinkler flask on a flaring foot, with a globular body and long tubular neck...

Persia, Ca. Late 15th-16th century AD A classic example of a kashkul, the begging bowl, cast from brass with two opposite dragon-headed terminals ...

Iran, Ca. Late 18th century AD A flat-bottomed copper brass bowl of a squat rounded form, engraved with geometric motifs.Size: L:110mm / W:215mm ;...

Persia, Ca. 17th century AD An impressive greenish glass bottle featuring a round body sitting upon a concave base, with a sloped shoulder that ge...

Egypt or Levant, Ca. 9th -11th century AD A monumental, rectangular-shaped stone panel inscribed in elongated Kufic script.Size: L:210mm / W:440mm...

Persia, Ca. 11th century AD A stone relief of Manticore - a legendary, mythical monszter with the body of a lion with a human head, and a porcupin...

Nishapur, Ca. 10th century AD A nicely formed pottery bowl with its interior decorated with white tin glaze slip with black painted Kufic script. ...

Persia, Ca. 12th-13th century AD A ceramic bowl of hemispherical shape rising from a ring foot. The interior is painted in black and pale blue und...

Kashan, Ca. 12th-13th century AD A rectangular-shaped pottery tile with a brown ground decorated with a dotted and vegetal motifs and navy glazed ...

Persia or North India, Ca. 19th-20th century AD A Persian or Indian Quran bound in a detailed tooled leather cover.Size: L:322mm / W:210mm ; 2.33k...

Ca. 18th-19th century AD White Sura headings inform the reader whether the Sura is a Mecca or Medina period revelation as well as chapter names. P...

Persia, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A manuscript titled the Diwan of the famous Persian poet Hafiz. Bound in leather. Later English labels on the spi...

Ottoman Empire, Ca. 17th century AD An Arabic Medical text, it includes treatments for scabies and improvements for sexual performance. In a beaut...

Ottoman Empire, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A Mystical religious text. The work includes square tables with Arabic letters and the names of the angel...

Ottoman Empire, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A fascinating manuscript appearing to be a linguistic text. Folios contain a diagram of the mouth and gui...

Ottoman Empire, or Northern India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A religious manuscript of duas or prayers. Illuminated, some pages have roundels with ...

Egypt or Syria, Ca. 14-15th century AD A beautifully rendered Mamluk Quran page of surah 28 verse 63-67, complete with gilded roundels and sura di...

Persia, Ca. 19th century AD Highly detailed hunting scene of an armed rider herding wild gazelle. Possibly from a story from Firdausi’s epic the S...

Ca. 16th century AD A brass ewer rising from a wide conical-shaped foot with a frilled edge through a drop-shaped body with diagonal ribs and tape...

Ca. 16th-17th century AD A Gulab Pash, the rose water sprinkler of a drop-shaped body on a rounded, splayed foot, and with a long tapering tubular...

Iran, Ca. 1785-1925 AD A highly decorated metal teapot of a drop-shaped body sitting on a wide flaring base and with a tapering neck with pronounc...

Iran, Ca. 19th century AD A copper pot of a bulbous body on a roundish base and with a waisted neck widening into a flared rim. The upper part of ...

Ca. 17th century AD A tin basin with high sides tapering to a roundish bottom. The body embellished with Nasta'liq script in cartouches and the fa...

Late 19th - early 20th century AD A tinned copper serving dish or canteen composed of a round form base with its fitted cover. The lower part is d...

Ca. 19th century AD A tinned copper vessel of a deep form body with its sides delicately tapering to a raised ring base. The exterior is decorated...

Ca. 19th century AD A brass divination or prayer dish of a deep and wide form. It is richly decorated with calligraphy Islamic script and has furt...

Iran, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A silver magical or divination dish of a deep and wide form sitting upon a ring foot. It is richly decorated with c...

Egypt or Syria, Ca. 14th century AD A flat-bottomed hammered copper or brass pot with high sides slightly tapering to the flat rim. The exterior i...

Arabia or Persia, Ca. 18th century AD A cast iron antique bolt lock, widely used throughout the Middle East and Arabia. Similar varieties of locks...

Persia or India, Ca. 1850-1930 AD A brass and copper inlaid tray with the closing surah of the Quran al Fatiha.Size: L:460mm / W:343mm ; 3.2kgProv...

Ottoman Anatolia, Ca. Late 16th-17th century AD A group of nine square-shaped tiles, each underglaze painted in bole red, cobalt blue, turquoise, ...

Ca. 15th-18th century AD An open-work wood carved panel of calligraphy decoration possibly coming from an important building.Size: L:347mm / W:280...

Ca. 18th-19th century AD A large, elegant temple door panel, richly embroidered in metal thread against white, brown, and cream background. It wou...

Persia, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A late Safavid or Qajar page from a work of fiction. Illustrated with a man falling from a cliff or being ambushe...

Persia, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A late Safavid or Qajar page from a work of fiction. One illustrated side depicting a woman serving a refreshing ...

N.India, Ca. 19th century AD A scene set in a royal court, possibly a mosque with an authority figure on a throne or possibly a minbar. Later Engl...

N.India, Ca. 19th century AD A court scene with musicians including a drummer and a lute player, while a man lies on the ground and a presentation...

India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD Beautifully illustrated river crossing scene. Ruler sitting on a raft with attendants with illuminated gilt vegeta...

India, Ca. 19th century AD With a typical halo backdrop, this Mughal ruler is depicted in profile holding a flower.Size: L:340mm / W:262mm ; 730gP...

Ca. 18th-19th century AD Court scene with a seated ruler under a canopy. Wonderfully illustrated margins, with verses from the Quran from surah al...

Persia, Ca. 18th-19th century AD Meticulous and highly detailed image of a turbaned man looking to his right and index finger raised. Depicted wea...

India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD An intimate scene of a Maharani listening to two court musicians in a night time palace scene overlooking the wate...

Northern India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD Portrait of a haloed Mughal ruler adorned with jewels and carrying a lance. Horse on hind legs almost eme...

Eastern Persia or India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A painting depicting a man with a conical hat, a woman, and a horse, in an outdoor scene. Gilded...

India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A fine depiction of a Mughal ruler, possibly Aurangzeb adorned with jewels, a halo, and patterned slippers. In a l...

Levant or Iraq, Ca. 18th-19th century AD Quran with elongated calligraphy typical of the eastern Levant and Iraq. It is divided into sections, and...

India, Ca. 18th-19th century AD A stunning Indian Quran, probably Mughal with coloured and illuminated pages. Semi camouflaged titles instruct the...

Ca. Late 18th-19th century AD A beautiful tinned copper bowl of a wide bulbous form with its walls tapering to a roundish bottom. The exterior is ...

Egypt or Turkey, Ca. Late 19th - early 20th century AD A flat tinned copper dish with central “Bismillah” ("In the name of God, the Most Gracious,...

Ca. Early 15th century AD A highly ornamented brass bowl featuring a squat body sitting on a roundish base and tapering to the mouth. Incised and ...

Egypt or Turkey, Ca. 19th century AD A beautiful flat round plate formed from a sheet of copper. The surface of the interior is richly ornamented ...

Khorasan, Ca. 16th or early 17th century ADA tinned copper bowl of a shallow wide body gently tapering to the base. The upper part of the exterior...

Ca. 7th-12th Century AD A cylindrical bronze scroll holder decorated with alternating panels of Kufic script and an openwork interwoven design. S...

Ca. 12th century AD A bronze spoon with a flat-section shaft and a shallow and wide bowl decorated with concentric circles.Size: L:411mm / W:136mm...

Levant or Persia, Ca. 11th century AD A pottery bowl with flaring sides rising from an unglazed ring foot. The interior is covered with green glaz...