Islamic Art - Property of a European Collector Part V

A PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICIAL QAJAR DIGNITARYLate Qajar Iran, ca. 1890 - 1910, signed SamirumiOil on canvas, the vertical-format painting portraying a...

A PORTRAIT OF A WESTERN-CLAD GENTLEMANLate Qajar Iran, dated Safar 1326 AH (12 March 1908 AD), signed Sani al-SultanOil on canvas, the vertical-fo...

A QAJAR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASE (QALAMDAN) WITH EUROPEAN LANDSCAPE VIEWS AND MAIDENIran, dated 1279 AH (1862 - 1863 AD), signed Muhammad J...

FOUR LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASES (QALAMDAN) WITH EUROPEAN FEMALE PORTRAITSLate Qajar Iran, late 19th - early 20th centuryEach with rounded en...

THREE LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ PEN CASES (QALAMDAN) WITH DECOUPAGED PHOTOGRAPHS AND WESTERN CHROMOLITHOGRAPHSLate Qajar Iran, late 19th - early 20th...

A LARGE ILLUMINATED MARRIAGE CONTRACTQajar Iran, dated 1307 AH (1890 AD)Persian and Arabic manuscript on paper, painted in blue, red, and yellow, ...

FIVE LEATHER BOOK BINDINGS AND A GILT AND TOOLED FLAP SECTIONIran and Ottoman Turkey, 18th and 19th centuries, one dated 1255 AH (1839 - 1840 AD)C...

L'ALCORAN DE MAHOMET: THE THIRD WESTERN TRANSLATION OF THE QUR'ANParis, France, printed in 1649, translated by André Du RyerFrench printed book on...

VOLUMES III AND IV OF THE SIX BOOKS OF JALAL AL-DIN MUHAMMAD BALKHI RUMI'S MATHNAWI-YE MA’NAWIEarly Qajar Iran, late 18th - early 19th centuryTwo ...

FOUR SIGNED AND DATED PANELS OF NASKH CALLIGRAPHYQajar Iran, 18th and 19th centuriesArabic and Persian manuscripts on paper, comprising a folio wi...

A SINGLE PANEL OF TA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHYSafavid Iran, 17th centuryPersian manuscript on paper, with 4ll. of black ink convoluted ta'liq script on illu...

THREE SIGNED PANELS OF NASTA'LIQ CALLIGRAPHYQajar Iran and North India, 19th centuryPersian manuscripts on paper, comprising a panel of Persian bl...

TWO PANELS OF SHIKASTEH NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHYQajar Iran, 19th centuryPersian manuscripts on paper, comprising a panel of Persian poetry and prose ...

TWO SIGNED PANELS OF SHIKASTEH NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHYQajar Iran, 19th centuryPersian manuscripts on paper, comprising a panel in red and black ink ...

TWO PANELS OF SHIKASTEH NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHYQajar Iran, 19th centuryPersian manuscripts on paper, comprising a panel with a hikayat (moralising p...

TWO DATED PANELS OF SHIKASTEH NASTA’LIQ CALLIGRAPHYQajar Iran, dated 1246 AH (1830 AD) and 1248 AH (1832 AD)Persian manuscripts on paper, comprisi...

A PANEL OF NASTA’LIQ MASHQ (PRACTICE) AND ANOTHER OF SHIKASTEH NASTA’LIQ MASHQ CALLIGRAPHYIran, late 19th and early 20th centuriesPersian manuscri...

TWO SIGNED PANELS OF NASTA’LIQ MASHQ CALLIGRAPHYLate Qajar Iran, early 20th centuryPersian manuscripts on buff paper, comprising a panel with diag...

A FINE SAFFRON YELLOW FULL TERMEH SHAWLKirman, Qajar Iran, 19th centuryOf narrow rectangular shape, the saffron yellow fine wool ground twill tape...

A LENGTH OF EMBROIDERED NAQSH-E ISFAHANI SHALWAR CUFFIsfahan, Zand Iran, late 18th centuryThe cotton ground entirely worked in tent stitch embroid...

A SAFAVID SILK AND METAL THREAD BROCADE PANELIran, 17th - 18th centuryOf rectangular shape, with silk and metallic thread woven around a silk core...

A MAGNIFICENT METAL THREAD-EMBROIDERED SILK COVERLETPossibly Eastern Europe, Austro-Hungarian Empire, late 19th centuryOf large square shape, the ...

A KASHMIRI EMBROIDERED ANGARKHA (LONG-SLEEVED OUTER ROBE)Kashmir, Northern India, 19th centuryThe elegant man’s robe made of yellow wool, finely e...

A MUGHAL-REVIVAL ROCK CRYSTAL-HILTED DAGGER (KHANJAR)Northern India, first half 20th centuryWith a sharp double-edged wavy and scalloped wootz ste...

TWO INDIAN ALBUM PAGES WITH ENCAMPMENT SCENESProvincial School, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 19th centuryOpaque pigments heightened with g...

AN ILLUSTRATION FROM A KHAMSA BY NIZAMI GANJAVI: SHIRIN MOURNING FARHAD'S DEATHSchool of Mir Kalan Khan, Lucknow, Court of Awadh, Northern India, ...

A CARVED MUGHAL EMERALD SCENT BOTTLE WITH STOPPERMughal India, 18th centuryOf faceted hexagonal shape, resting on a flattened and smooth base, sur...

AN INDIAN BEJEWELLED GOLD NECKLACE WITH SEED PEARLSPossibly Jaipur, Rajasthan, North-Western India, late 19th - early 20th centuryComposed of twen...

AN INDIAN BEJEWELLED GULABI-MEENAKARI (PINK-ENAMELLED) GOLD TURBAN ORNAMENT (TURRA) WITH PARROTBenares (Varanasi), India, 19th centuryWorked in th...

AN INDIAN-STYLE LACQUERED PAPIER-MÂCHÉ MIRROR CASEPost-Safavid Iran, 18th - 19th centuryOf oval shape, polychrome-painted, heightened with gold an...