Islamic and Indian Art including Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art

A bound group of ten leaves from six separate suras of a dispersed manuscript of the Qur'an, written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North ...

A Qur'an leaf written in kufic script on vellum Near East or North Africa, 9th CenturyArabic manuscript on vellum, 7 lines to the page written in ...

A large illuminated Qur'an in a floral lacquer binding, the text ending with sura LXXXV, al-Buruj, The Constellations Provincial Persia, early 16t...

Nizami, Khusrau va Shirin, Persian poetry, copied by 'Ala'al-Din Muhammad Sarraf [money changer] Isfahani Timurid Persia, dated Tuesday 12th Dhi'l...

Zahir Faryabi, Divan, Persian poetry, copied by the scribe 'Abd al-Jabbar Isfahani, a pupil of Mir 'Imad Persia, dated Ramadan 1026/September-Octo...

Abd al-Rahman Jami, Persian poetry, with a section from the Haft Awrang added by a different scribe Safavid Persia, dated AH 960/AD 1552-53 and 26...

A maiden wearing a luxurious fur mantle, attributed to Muhammad Qasim Persia, Isfahan, dated AH 1004/AD 1596-1597gouache and gold on paper, inscri...

A scholar with his pupils in a rocky landscape Persia, probably Khorasan, circa 1600gouache and gold on paper, inner margins ruled in gold, blue, ...

An illuminated Qur'an in a floral lacquer binding Persia, early 18th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, 176 leaves, 23 lines to the page written i...

An illuminated Qur'an copied by the scribe Ibrahim al-Rushdi, a pupil of Mustafa Shaker Ottoman Turkey, probably Constantinople, dated AH 1236/AD ...

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Husain al-Hamdi Ottoman Turkey, dated AH 1273/AD 1856-57Arabic manuscript on paper, 302 leaves, 15 lines to the p...

An illuminated prayer scroll written in thuluth and ghubari scripts Qajar Persia, dated AH 1267/AD 1850-51Arabic manuscript on paper, one illumina...

An illuminated scroll comprising the last 36 suras of the Qur'an (Juz XXX), in the manner of Ahmad al-Suhrawardi, with date AH 681/AD 1282-83 Near...

Mirza Rafi', known as Badhil Mashhadi (d. 1711), and Azad Kashmiri (d. 1721), Hamlah-i Haydari, a verse account of the life of the Imam 'Ali, with...

A silver-inlaid brass bowl Persia or Mesopotamia, 14th Centurywith rounded base, tapering sides and inverted rim, engraved and inlaid in silver an...

A Fars brass bowl Persia, 14th Centurywith rounded base, inverted sides and flattened rim, engraved with a series of roundels containing mounted w...

A pair of Ottoman gold-damascened steel Calligrapher's scissors and two other tools Turkey, 18th/ 19th Centurythe scissors of typical form, termin...

A Safavid openwork steel buckle Persia, 16th/ 17th Centuryof convex circular form with circular mount to reverse, decorated in openwork backed wit...

A Safavid gold-damascened openwork steel boss Persia, 16th Centuryof circular form with applied inverted steel rim, the central watered steel pane...

A Safavid openwork Steel 'alam Section Persia, 16th/ 17th Centuryof teardrop form terminating in two curved elements, decorated in openwork with t...

A collection of Qajar steel tools Persia, 18th-19th Centurycomprising a powder measure; a set of ember tongs and pricker in the form of a dragon; ...

A collection of steel flint-strikers and belt hooks Persia, 15th-19th Centurycomprising nine flint strikers - a fine Timurid example in the form o...

Two pairs of Qajar steel scissors Persia, 18th/ 19th Centuryeach with large serpentine handles terminating in dragon heads, pendant openwork palme...

Six pairs of steel qalamdan scissors Persia, 18th-19th Centuryeach of tapering form, four decorated in openwork with foliate interlace, one chisel...

Aegidius Sadeler II (d. 1629), Zeynal Khan and Mehdi Quli Beg, Persian ambassadors to the court of Rudolf II Prague, 1604 and 1605copperplate engr...

A Qajar enamelled brass ghalian Persia, 19th Centuryof inverted piriform with removable flaring cylindrical neck and tripod stand, decorated in po...

A Qajar coco de mer Kashkul by Mirza Ghulam Husayn Shirazi Persia, 19th Centuryof typical form, profusely engraved with a large lobed inscription-...

A Qajar lacquer box containing a set of portable merchant's weights and scales Persia, dated AH 1242/ AD 1826-27rectangular, the interior containi...

A fine Ottoman silver-gilt thread embroidered kaftan Turkey, 19th Centuryof typical form, the purple velvet ground embroidered in gilt-silver thre...

A set of Ottoman coral and gold prayer beads (tasbih) Turkey or Europe for the Ottoman Market, 19th Centurycomprising ninety-nine red coral beads ...

Two rare early photographs of Mecca by Al-Sayyid 'Abd al-Ghaffar al-Tabib Mecca, second half of the 1880salbumen prints laid down on card album pa...

An Ottoman tortoiseshell and mother of pearl-inlaid wood Qur'an stand Turkey, 18th Centuryof typical folding x-form with arched lower sections, pr...

An Ottoman walnut and mother of pearl-inlaid panel retailed by Max Fruchtermann Turkey, probably Constantinople, circa 1900of rectangular form, th...

A large painted gesso Alhambra Mihrab Plaque Granada, circa 1900rectangular, decorated in polychrome and gilt with a mihrab niche surmounted by tw...

A lacquered wood writing box Kashmir, late 19th Centuryof rectangular form, the hinged lid with sloping edge, painted in gilt and polychrome, prof...