Fine Interiors (including Books) - Two Day Sale

Five Islamic hookah bowls, 19th century, comprising a foliate engraved silver-mounted example, set with turquoise cabochons and other semi-preciou...

A Safavid pottery kalian pipe base, 17th century, Persia, possibly Kerman, decorated in red, grey, and blue slip, and underglaze blue, neck reduce...

A large Persian bronze basin with silver, copper and brass inlay, 14th/15th century, the flared body decorated with various seated figures above a...

A Persian bronze ewer, Seljuk, 13th/14th century, the pear-shaped body and loop handle, surmounted by a foliate fnial, 26cm high, and another simi...

A Persian brass inlaid spouted ewer, Khorasan, c.1220, constructed of sheet metal, chased, engraved and inlaid, of characteristic from with a cyli...

A Nishapur or Samarqand pottery bowl, possibly 10th century, decorated in iron-black slip, the interstices with dotted patterns and stylised peaco...

A Nishapur pottery dish, 10th century, decorated in iron-black slip, olive green and ochre red, in stylised navettes, 34cm diameter, together with...

A Raqqa turquoise-glazed bowl, Ayyubid Syria , 13th century, decorated in black with a banded repeating pattern around a central six-pointed star,...

An underglazed painted bowl , Persia, 13th century, decorated with arabesques, stylised flowers and peacock eyes, 14.5cm diameter, together with a...

Two rare Timurid pottery s quinch tiles (m uqarna), 15th century, decorated in cuerda seca, cobalt blue, turquoise and white glaze, with flower he...

A North Indian coat of mail , 18th century, the padded collar present, no inscription visible, 91.4 x 121.9cm Provenance: The Property of a Promin...

A collection of twenty-eight edged weapons, mainly 19th and 20th century, including: yatagans, katar, dhas, kastanes and kris, nineteen with scabb...

Three steel push daggers (katars) , South India, late 17th/early 18th century, 63.5cm and smaller (3) Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West...

A steel push dagger (katar) , South India, 17th century, 35.6cm long Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Country Collector.

A watered steel and damascene hilted chilanum, the hilt South India, 17th century, the blade 19th century, 38.1cm long Provenance: The Property of...

Five daggers (jambiyas), North Africa, early 20th century and later, 40.6cm long and smaller (5) Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Coun...

Two kukris, Nepal, 20th century, one horn hilt, each second blade with an ivory pommel, the other with a bone hilt, the longest 43.2cm (2) Provena...

A jambiya, Arabic Peninsula, 19th-20th century, 45.1cm long Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Country Collector.

Two daggers (peshkabz), Central Asia, 19th century, one with a walrus ivory hilt, the other ivory-hilted, 48.3cm long (2) Provenance: The Property...

Five bronze daggers, Luristan, Iran, 9-7th century BCE, 32 to 41cm long (5)

A bronze sword, 1000 B.C.E., with openwork pommel blade incomplete , 38cm long

A pair of Nasrid plasterwork panels, Iberian peninsula, 13th/14th century, each panel in two sections and decorated with geometric lazo and atauri...

A fragmentary Fatimid lustre pottery jar, Egypt, 11th century, the flaring rim over a stepped shoulder and ovoid body, decorated in olive lustre w...

A Samarqand pottery charger with Kufic inscription, 10th century, 38cm diameter, together with a similar cream-glazed pottery bowl, with black rim...

An Abbasid pottery fragmentary charger, 10th century, with greyish-white and mottled-green glaze, a/f , 44cm diameter

A Kashan pottery cock-headed ewer, 12th century, with a studded body, turquoise lustre glaze and black slip decoration, 30cm high

A Persian pottery bottle vase, 19th century, with impressed repeating foliate design, 32cm high

An Isnik pottery tile panel, 18th century, decorated in cobalt, turquoise and green, with scrolling foliate banded designs, 24 x 20cm

A pair of Kashan turquoise-glazed moulded pottery window tiles, possibly 12th century, each with a flower head cut-out, 34 x 39.5cm and 35 x 29.5c...

A Qajar Iznik pottery pictorial tile, 19th century, depicting four figures seated in an interior scene within a banded border 59 x 39cm, mounted o...

A two-piece Damascus Iznik tile panel, possibly 16th century, depicting a bottle vase of flowers and underglazed in cobalt, turquoise and manganes...

A collection of pre-Columbian pottery, to include three Chimu vessels, also Tihuanaco and Mochica pieces, the tallest 23cm (7) Provenance: Purchas...

Five clay vessels, including ancient Near East, two painted bowls, one inscribed 'Mount of Offence, Palestine, LWRWC, Oct 1898', tallest 21cm high

Sixteen various clay vessels, ancient Near East, some painted in colours with animals, tallest 16cm high

Four early banded alabaster bowls, Egyptian, each of conical form the largest 18cm diameter, 13cm high (4)

A Ptolemaic- style alabaster cylinder jar, with a flared rim over an inverse tapering body, 20cm diameter 41cm high

Two dha swords, Burma, late 19th-early 20th century, in metal scabbards, 74.9cm long (2) Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Country Coll...

A tulwar, North India, the blade 19th century, the hilt late 19th century, 88.9cm long Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Country Collec...

A Japanese WWII shin gunto and scabbard, with bound ray skin handle, bronze and copper tsuba and mounts, with a blue and brown tassel, the blade 7...

A watered steel saif , the hilt 19th century, the blade possibly Iran and earlier, 94.6cm long Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Countr...

An horn-hilted shashka, Caucasus, 19th century, the blade marked, in a metal-mounted leather scabbard 95.9cm high Provenance: The Property of a Pr...

A straight sword (firangi) , India, 18th/19th century, the blade with an inventory mark, in scabbard, 109cm long Provenance: The Property of a Pro...

Ten steel elephant axes (bhuj) and a steel battle axe (zaghnal), the bhujs North West India, late 18th/early 19th century, the zaghnal South India...

Two steel ceremonial axes, Qajar, Iran, 19th century, 72.4cm long (2) Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Country Collector.

Five steel ceremonial axes, Qajar, Iran, 19th century, 68.6cm long (5) Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Country Collector.

A Persian copper silver-inlaid bowl, Khorasan, 12th century, the faceted bowl with a Kufic decorated rim, on a spreading foot, the interior inset ...

A Persian bronze ewer, 9th/10th century, with a fluted pear-shaped body with leaf handle and shoulder, 36cm high

A pair of embossed sheet brass trays, 12th/13th century, of rectangular form, the inlaid central lozenge decorated with three cartouches, 31cm wid...

A Persian bronze mortar, Khorasan, 13th century, of octagonal form, with a flat everted rim and incised decoration, with one horse head mounted lo...

A Persian bronze lamp stand, late 12th/early 13th century, in two sections, comprising a pierced tripod base, raised on three scrolling outswept l...

A Persian silver and copper inlaid bronze inkwell, 12th century, the flared cylindrical body with three cartouches containing interlaced script, t...

A Persian turned copper metal basin, 12th century, the body applied with five cartouches below Kufic script, 20cm wide

A large Persian copper basin, Safavid, 17th century, with calligraphic decorated rim, 38cm wide

A Persian silvered copper bowl, Safavid, 17th century, the flared body decorated with various cartouches of calligraphic script, 23cm wide

A bronze repoussé plaque depicting elephants and figures, Sri Lanka, 19th/20th century, 32 x 36cm Provenance: The Property of a Prominent West Cou...

A Persian copper bronze bowl, 15th century, Mamluk, with profusely engraved alteration inscription filled roundels and mounted horsemen, 25cm diam...

A Persian tinned copper ribbed bowl, 17th century, decorated with bands of Kufic script, with scrolling thumbpiece, 19cm wide, and a bronze bowl, ...

A bronze lion aquamanile , probably 16th century, the lion standing four-square with a water spout in its jaw, 11cm high 14cm long

A Persian bronze double-spouted oil lamp, Khorasan, 11th/12th century, the globular body with pierced openwork decoration, the spouts with a flatt...

A large Persian bronze mortar, possibly 12th century, of octagonal form with flattened circular rim and inset with copper knot roundels, 32cm diam...