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Attributed to Francesco Fieravino (undefined, Valetta 1609-1653 Rome)A breastplate and other armour with a plumed helmet on a draped table oil on canvas98 x 136.8cm (38 9/16 x 53 7/8in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

North Italian School, early 17th CenturyThe Ascension oil on marble56.5 x 45.3cm (22 1/4 x 17 13/16in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Venetian School, 18th CenturyA Mediterranean inlet with shipping at anchor; and A Mediterranean coastline with a palace on a rocky outcrop a pair, oil on canvas, unlined73.8 x 98.8cm (29 1/16 x 38 7/8in). (2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

North Italian School, early 17th CenturyThe Madonna with the sleeping Christ Child oil on canvas60.5 x 43.8cm (23 13/16 x 17 1/4in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Attributed to Vincenzo Chilone (Venice 1768-1840)The Basilica of Sant Maria della Salute, Venice oil on canvas34.4 x 45cm (13 9/16 x 17 11/16in).Footnotes:The present work is offered with a copy of a certificate from Egidio Martini suggesting an attribution to Vincenzo Chilone.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Attributed to Pieter Borselaer (Middelburg circa 1640-1731)Portrait of a lady, half-length, in a black dress with red and white trim oil on canvas76.5 x 63.4cm (30 1/8 x 24 15/16in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Circle of Lorenzo Costa (Ferrara circa 1460-1533 Mantua)Christ at the Column oil on panel56.7 x 40.5cm (22 5/16 x 15 15/16in).Footnotes:ProvenanceCollection of Count Umberto Gualtiero Bellini delle Stelle (1887-1960), USA, until 1928Sale, Christie's, London, 27 April 1928, lot 27 (as Albertinelli, bt. L. Harris)Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 30 April 2019, lot 487, where purchased by the present ownerThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Placido Costanzi (Rome 1690-1759)Noli me tangere; and Christ and the Woman of Samaria a pair, oil on copper, tondi25.1cm. (10 in.) diameter (2)Footnotes:The main figures in both works echo those in the pair by Costanzi offered at Christie's, New York, 15 April 2008, lot 43, and formerly in the Collection of the Earl of Radnor.We are grateful to Professor Giancarlo Sestieri for confirming the attribution to Placido Costanzi on the basis of colour photographs.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Attributed to Christian Georg Schütz I (Flörsheim 1718-1791 Frankfurt)A Rhenish river landscape with figures boarding a ferry oil on panel19 x 26.1cm (7 1/2 x 10 1/4in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Antonio Maria Marini (Venice 1668-1725)A cavalry battle; and A cavalry skirmish before city walls a pair, oil on canvas, ovals68 x 91.7cm (26 3/4 x 36 1/8in). (2)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Collection, Geneva, 1992With G. Baratti, Milan, 2011 (both according to Literature)LiteratureS. Proni, Antonio Maria Marini, L'opera completa, Naples, 1992, pp. 158-161, no. 3.1 a and 3.1 b, ill.G. Sestieri, I battaglisti. La pittura di battaglia dal XVI al XVIII secolo, Tivoli, 2011, p. 76, nos. 29 and 30, ill. pp. 77-9, pl. 29 and 30This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Follower of Hans Rottenhammer I (Munich 1564-1625 Augsburg)The Destruction of the Children of Niobe oil on canvas79 x 90.3cm (31 1/8 x 35 9/16in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Remigio Cantagallina (Florence circa 1582-1656)A wooded landscape with a figure with a woodsman signed with monogram 'CR' (lower left)pen and ink on paper16.8 x 27.7cm (6 5/8 x 10 7/8in).Footnotes:ProvenanceDr Rev Henry Wellesley (1794-1866)His sale, Sotheby's, 25 June to 10 July 1866, part of lot 954'A portfolio' (as by Jacopo Ligozzi) (£1.15s. to Noseda)Sir David Kelly Sale, Hodgson's, London, 26 November 1954, part of lot 596 (as Jacopo Ligozzi)With Hans Calmann, LondonPrivate Collection, USAThe present work was originally part of an album inscribed 'Vedute di Toscana di Jacopo Ligozzi', which included numerous drawings by Cantagallina. Hans Calmann acquired the album and the drawings were dispersed over the years.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Neapolitan School, 17th CenturyStudy for a head of a man red chalk on paper laid down on paper24.9 x 17.2cm (9 13/16 x 6 3/4in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Collection, USA since at least 1970sThis lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Tuscan School, 17th CenturyThe Christ Child as Salvator Mundi oil on canvas126.2 x 96cm (49 11/16 x 37 13/16in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * TP* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.TP Lot will be moved to an offsite storage location (Cadogan Tate, Auction House Services, 241 Acton Lane, London NW10 7NP, UK) and will only be available for collection from this location at the date stated in the catalogue. Please note transfer and storage charges will apply to any lots not collected after 14 calendar days from the auction date.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

After Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called il Guercino, 19th CenturySaint John the Baptist oil on canvas, unlined74.5 x 60.7cm (29 5/16 x 23 7/8in).unframedFootnotes:The present lot is after Guercino's original work now in the Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A flintlock 'cannon' barrelled pocket pistol by Brazier of London, circa 1770, walnut stock with wire filigree ornament and green man butt plate, steel lock and twist-off barrel with London proof marks, 19.5cm in lengthCondition Report: Knocks, scratches etc. Country house condition with areas of corrosion and signs of old corrosion where it has previously been cleaned. No obvious signs of replacement parts. Hammer goes to full and half cock but the spring is quite feeble.Detailed images are available upon request from the Dept.Condition Report Disclaimer

An iron barrelled percussion lock blunderbuss with spring bayonet, late 18th and 19th centuries, with brass butt-plate and trigger guard, the lock converted to percussion, the stock inscribed 'N ASHE', 76cm in lengthCondition Report: The hammer is missing thumb pieceThe lock has been convertedHeavily scratched and dentedMissing ramrodThe iron is corrodedCondition Report Disclaimer

QUEEN - 12" SINGLES PACK. An excellent selection of 16 12" singles by Queen. All in superb Ex to Ex+/ Archive condition. Titles include One Vision (12QUEEN6, in original printed PVC sleeve), The Show Must Go On (12QUEENSG19), Scandal (12QUEENS14), I'm Going Slightly Mad (12QUEENG17), The Miracle (12QUEENP15), Innuendo (12QUEEN16, includes a couple of promo inserts relating to its release. Record has some PVC transfer sheen to one side VG), Headlong, Radio Ga Ga, I Want It All, Hammer To Fall, The Miracle, Breakthru, A Kind Of Magic, Who Wants To Live Forever, Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure, I Want To Break Free. Condition is superb Ex to Ex+/ Archive.

JACK HAMMER - BRAVE NEW WORLD LP (ORIGINAL UK PRESSING - POLYDOR 582001). Here we have a scarce original UK LP offering of Jack Hammer's album Brave New World (582001, 1966 UK pressing on Polydor. A1/ B1 matrix. The labels are lovely, bright and clean. The record is in superb Ex condition with only one or two wispy hairline paper surface marks. The front laminated sleeve is lovely and glossy, the back cover has a small sticker tear to the top right corner, strong VG+).

INDIE/ POP/ ROCK - 12"/ 7" COLLECTION. A quality selection of 44 12"/ 7" singles. Artists/ titles include Happy Mondays - Step On, The Prodigy - Charly, DJH - Move Your Love, FAB - The Prisoner, Solo - Rainbow, Guns n Roses - Paradise City, Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby, The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Michael Jackson - Black Or White, The Lightning Seeds - Pure, The The - The Beaten Generation, Genesis - No Son Of Mine, Shamen - Phorever People. Dead Dead Good, Soul II Soul, Adamski, London Boys, The Cygnet Ring, Martika, 2 Unlimited, oft Cell, A-Ha, The Beach Boys, Tasmin Archer, Shaggy, MC Hammer, Bobby Brown. Condition is generally VG+ to Ex+.

An 1883 Wallace Patent Combination Military Entrenching Tool, The Blade Doubling as Axe and as Inch Ruler. The Handle As Spike and Hammer Slide Stamped For Edward Lucas and Son, Sheffield

A diamond-set enamelled gold bangle (Kada) North India, 20th Centuryof circular form, the hinged clasp in the form of two confronting makara heads, enamelled and set with diamonds, the exterior with perching birds, the interior with floral polychrome enamelled decoration with perching birds 8.2 cm. max. diam.; 121.6 g. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ΩΩ VAT on imported items at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A fine and unusual double-sided album page from the Imperial Mughal Library during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb, with scenes from the life of the Sufi Shaykh Majd al-Din Baghdadi Herat, 16th Century, with Deccani and Mughal additions of the second half of the 17th Centuryrecto, six scenes in gouache and gold on paper, perhaps excised from a manuscript of Jami's Nafahat al-Uns, laid down on an album page with an inner silver-sprinkled light blue border, nasta'liq inscriptions within gold cloudbands in upper and lower border, outer border with undulating foliate motifs in gold on a light pink ground, seal impression of Mughal Imperial Librarian at lower right corner; verso, a circular painting of a noblewoman, Mughal, late 17th Century, laid down on sections from Deccani and Mughal gilt-decorated album page borders of the late 17th-early 18th Century, gold-sprinkled inner borders, fine marbled border outside these, upper outer border with nasta'liq inscription, lower border with two lines of text in nagari script in gold (trimmed at right-hand edge), perhaps later, numbered 69 in Arabic at lower left corner each scene recto 100 x 95 mm. and slightly smaller; painting verso 103 mm. diam.; album page 390 x 278 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceThe Imperial Mughal Library, apparently during the reign of the Emperor Aurangzeb (reg. 1658-1707).Private US collection, early 1970s-present.The seal impression in the lower right corner (recto) is that of a Mughal official, and reads: sohrab khan khaneh zad-e 'alamgir padshah, 'Sohrab Khan, born in the household of 'Alamgir Padshah'. The date is not clear, but it is clearly from the reign of Aurangzeb/'Alamgir I (1658-1707), and judging by the terminology, probably the early years of his reign. The seal impression of Sohrab Khan is found on other album pages including one in the Philadelphia Museum, while another was on a portrait of the Mughal nobleman Farrukh Fal, dated 1650-75, with Francesca Galloway (Indian Miniatures, London 2005, pp. 16-17, no. 6). This also had the same kind of nagari inscription indicating a Rajput collection, perhaps Amber. An album page with Sohrab Khan's seal impression, depicting a Mughal nobleman recto and with calligraphy by Javaher Raqam verso, dated to the third quarter of the 17th Century, was sold at Sotheby's, The Khosrovani-Diba Collection, 19th October 2016, lot 15.The Persian text verso consists of a couplet in praise of the beauty of a lady (perhaps by implication, that depicted in the painting below). The nagari text at the bottom also praises her beauty, comparing it to spring.The fragments of plants on a gold ground are reminiscent of imaginary plant studies in a dispersed manuscript of Indian philosophy, the Aparoksha Siddhanta, produced in the Deccan, at Aurangbad, and dated 1669 (see Francesca Galloway, op. cit., pp. 4-7, nos. 1, 2; also N. Haidar, M. Sardar, Sultans of Deccan India 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy, New York 2015, pp. 292-293, no. 169).Marbling is of course a technique strongly associated with the Deccan, and the example here in the outer border verso is particularly striking. The petal-like differentiated areas were probably created using some sort of stencil or resist-masking technique for blocking off sections (though there is some suggestion that the technique is decoupage). For examples of Deccani marbling, and a discussion of the technique, see Haidar and Sardar, op. cit., pp. 156-169, esp. p. 158.The absence of text makes it impossible to say if the paintings recto were excised from a manuscript of Jami's Nafahat al-Uns, or another text on Sufis, or were simply depictions of the life of Shaykh Majd al-Din, made in an album for a specific patron.Jami's Nafahat al-Uns told the lives of six hundred and eleven Sufi saints. Shaykh Majd al-Din Baghdadi was a pupil of Najm al-Din Kubra. Khwarazm Shah asked the Caliph of Baghdad to send him a physician and Majd al-Din was sent. The Khwarazm Shah threw him in dajlah (referring, it seems, to a river as large as the Tigris - a scene perhaps depicted at lower left). Examples of the complete text have appeared at auction a few times: the only illustrated instance was a single leaf, dated to Herat, circa 1500 (see Christie's South Kensington, Indian and Islamic Works of Art and Textiles, 11th April 2008, lot 102. For complete examples of the text, see: Christie's, Islamic, Indian and Armenian Art and Manuscripts, 12th October 1999, lot 80 (dated AH 910/AD 1504); Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 5th December 2002, lot 496 (Afghanistan or North India, 17th Century); Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 31st March 2009, lot 138A (a Turkish translation, dated 1520).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

The Compilation of the Guru Granth by Dwarka Dass (India, 20th Century), circa 1950-60oil on board, signed Dwarka/Shri Sharda Arts lower right 61 x 91.5 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Al-Sahifa al-Kamila, a collection of prayers including seven prayers to be recited according to the days of the week Persia, late Safavid, late 17th/early 18th CenturyArabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 241 leaves, approximately 9 lines to the page written in clear naskhi script in black ink with interlinear Persian translation written in smaller nasta'liq script in red ink, double interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, catchwords, headings of each prayer written in elegant thuluth in gold within a rectangle decorated with fine vegetal scrolling motifs in blue, numerous Persian commentaries written in nasta'liq script in black ink in outer margins, one fine double-page of illumination richly decorated with intertwining floral motifs in gold and some colour, the two pages interleaved with a blank page containing cartouches incorporating a reference in nasta'liq script to the fourth Imam, Zayn al-'Abidin (to whom al-Sahifa al-Kamila is attributed), red morocco, covers richly decorated with central medallions and cornerpieces incorporating intertwining floral motifs in colours and gold, on a red ground decorated with intertwining vegetal motifs in gold, with flap, doublures of green morocco gilt, lower cover detached 173 x 113 mm.Footnotes:Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A large Kashan calligraphic moulded monochrome pottery tile Persia, dated AH 679/ AD 1280of square form, moulded in relief with a central panel containing ten lines of inscription in cursive naskh flanked by a raised rib at each side, the borders with further bands of inscriptions 47 x 47 cm. Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Sold to benefit future acquisitions, Christie's, 15 October 2002, lot 41.Inscriptions: parts of Qur'an, chapter XXXVI; 'this is [...] of Jamal al-Din Muhammad ibn Mahmud ibn Muhammad [...]', followed by the date 'Monday 13 Safar' and the year '679' (15 June 1280 AD).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An album of twenty-two paintings of Brahmins, merchants and tradespeople, servants and female and male musicians South India, probably Trichinopoly, early 19th Centurywatercolours on paper, bound but lacking binding, inner margins in yellow, some with floral cornerpieces, identifying inscriptions in Telugu in upper borders and in French in lower borders, numbered in upper corners 225 x 175 mm.Footnotes:The figures are as follows:1. A soldier, armed with sword and shield [inscription illegible].2. Homme qui vuille a la tranquilite dans les villages [perhaps a type of irregular policeman].3. Labourer.4. His wife.5. Berger, porteur de lait, a shepherd carrying milk.6. His wife.7. Brame qui va annoncer la date du jour, on lui donne qq'un [...] tous les mois (with a note, Ceci est intelligible dans l'original).8. His wife: Femme de Brame qui porte de l'eau pour son menage. Elles sont obliges de couper leurs cheveux lorsquelles sont veuves.9. Female musician with a vina (bayadere).10. A female drummer.11. A female musician with castanet-like instruments.12. A female musician with a vina.13. A female musician, using a jar as a percussion instrument.14. A female juggler.15. A female musician playing a wind instrument.16. A male drummer (Musicien pour les mariages, les enterrements, etc.17. A male horn-player (Musicien public).18. A male mendicant musician with a vina.19. Marchand de Sud, Merchant of the south, carrying a parasol.20. His servant, carrying a kettle or lota.21. Caste de Nairs, a Nair man armed with a khatar and carrying a tame bird.22. Vendeur de perles, coraux etc., a seller of pearls, coral etc.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Pala blackstone stele of Vishnu Northeastern India, Pala-sena period, circa 11th Centurystanding on a lotus pedestal, holding a mace and a chakra, his lower hands varadamura and holding a conch, flanked by his consorts Lakshmi and Sarasvati, above celestial garland bearers flanking the protective mask of kirtimukha, below kneeling attendants and an inscription 59 cm. highFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate German collection. Acquired by the vendor's late husband in Dhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1969 whilst he was working there.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Muhammad 'Ali Pacha, Khedive of Egypt and Sudan (reg. 1805-48), seated with a plan of the proposed railway between Cairo and Suez British School, after Thomas Brigstocke (1809-1881), mid-19th Centuryoil on canvas laid down on panel 121 x 78.5 cm.Footnotes:Muhammad 'Ali (1769-1849) was the Khedive of Egypt and Sudan, and is often cited as the viceroy who most reformed and modernised the state. In the lower right of the painting the partially unrolled plans outline the proposal for a railway between Cairo and Suez. This route was put forward in 1833, but postponed due to pressure from Linant de Bellefonds and the Suez Canal Company. After 'Ali Pacha's death in 1849, his successor, Abbas I, contracted Robert Stephenson to build a section between Alexandria and the Nile, which was completed in 1854 and was the first railway line in the Ottoman Empire, Africa and the Middle East.Thomas Brigstocke (1809-1881) was a British portrait painter. After some brief tuition at the studio of Henry Saas, he studied painting at the Royal Academy Schools, and was subsequently a pupil of Henry Perronet Briggs and John Prescott Knight. In 1847, he travelled to Egypt with a letter of introduction to Muhammad 'Ali Pacha. He stayed in Egypt for approximately sixteen months at the Palace of Shoubra, wherein he painted a number of portraits of the Pacha and his family. Between 1842 and 1865 he exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the British Institution. The portrait of the Khedive was engraved as a mezzotint in 1852 by George Raphael Ward (1799-1879).Another version (perhaps after the print), with the Khedive in the same pose and the with the plans at lower right, but replacing the landscape view at right with a blank wall, was painted by the Italian artist A. Lecchi (see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 20th October 2016, lot 135). The Khedive was also painted by Sir David Wilkie in 1841 (the work is now in Tate Britain, London).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Baba Deep Singh by Shankar Lal (India, 20th Century), circa 1950-60oil on board, signed lower right, painted white border painting 71.5 x 49 cm.; board 76 x 61.5 cm.Footnotes:Baba Deep Singh (1682-1757) is a famous Sikh hero, who was initially a close companion of Guru Gobind Singh. He combined religious life and devotion to the scriptures with military duties in the Khalsa army. He fought under Banda Singh Bahadur against the Mughals, but his best-known actions were against the Afghans during their incursions into India under Ahmad Shah Durrani. At the battle of Amritsar in 1757 (which the Sikhs fought in part to avenge the desecration of the Golden Temple), Baba Deep Singh (who had come out of scholarly retirement in his old age) was decapitated in combat, but according to legend fought on.For another depiction of his exploits, see the sale in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 30th March 2021, lot 120.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maktabi Shirazi, Layla va Majnun, with eighteen illustrations, copied by Muhammad Husayn ibn Mirza Muhammad Mazandarani Persia, dated AH 1247/AD 1831-32Persian manuscript on paper, 104 leaves with two blanks, 11 lines to the page written two columns in nasta'liq script in black ink with many words in shikasteh, intercolumnar rules and inner margins ruled in gold, headings written in nasta'liq script in red, opening illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, 18 illustrations, Qajar lacquer floral binding, floral doublures 147 x 93 mm.Footnotes:The illustrations are as follows:1. Sayyid 'Amiri (Majnun's father) asks Layla's father for the hand of his daughter for his son.2. Majnun's father advises Majnun.3. Majnun and his father on the way to the Ka'ba.4. Majnun and his father at the Ka'ba.5. Story of lovers descried.???6. Majnun's mother advises her son.7. The old woman and Layla. 8. Layla & companions in a garden (seen by Ibn Salam).9. Majnun meets Nawfal.10. Battle of the two tribes.11. Majnun on his way to Layla's camp, hearing a noise from a well.12. Layla meets Majnun in the wilderness.13. A shepherd takes Majnun to Layla concealed in sheepskin.14. Majnun at his father's tomb.15. A messenger brings a letter from Layla.16. Majnun is told of his mother's tomb.17. Majnun watches Ibn Salam being killed by a beast.18. Majnun dies on Layla's dead body.Maktabi Shirazi was a poet of the late 15th-early 16th century, who composed his Layla and Majnun in AH 895/AD 1489-90, which he dedicated to Amir-zadeh Qasim. There is no record of his actual name, and he is recorded only by his pen name Maktabi, after his profession of teacher at a school (maktab). He is recorded as having travelled to Khorasan, India and Arabia. He died circa 1510 and is buried in Shiraz. (See F. Richard, Catalogue des Manuscripts Persans, vol. II, Le Supplement Persan, Rome 2013, pp. 851-2, no. 647).Rypka comments: 'Nizami found an uncommonly large number of imitators of his poem Layla u Majnun, in Iran and in the areas falling under the influence of Persian culture – in Turkey, Central Asia, India and so on. They imitate his form, choice of material, treatment of analogous and sometimes like subjects, preferably in the same Khamsa form. Amir Khusrau, the first in point of time, occupies a prominent place and he in his turn also influences his successors. Among these, Maktabi of Shiraz approaches his model most nearly in his admirable epic poem Layla u Majnun, which dates from AH 895/AD 1489–90 and is a work that even achieves new effects by means of lyrical ghazal insertions. Tremendous admiration for Nizami is reflected also in the miniatures and in the minor arts in general, where the themes are for the great part taken from the Khamsa.' See J. Rypka, History of Persian Literature, Dordrecht 1968, pp. 98 and 213. A fine version of this text was offered in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 24th April 2018, lot 144; and another, 26th October 2020, lot 48.The text (in a slightly casual nasta'liq, including many words in shikasteh) was copied by Muhammad Husayn ibn Mirza Muhammad Mazandarani in AH 1247/AD 1831-32. He is unrecorded. A manuscript of the Layla and Majnun (without giving the poet's name) in nasta'liq and signed by the same scribe as the present manuscript, but dated AH 1251/AD 1835-36, was offered at Sotheby's, Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 28th April 1993, lot 145. It had 102 leaves, 11 lines of text to the page (as here), headings in red, and had thirteen illustrations.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A pair of diamond-set earrings North India, 19th Centuryeach of silver set with diamonds, in the form of a crescent, surmounted by a central trefoil motif, the lower edge with pendent fish and emerald flanked by further teardrop pendants, gold filigree and pearl fringe, four pendant emeralds to each fish 10.5 cm. max.; 110g. total weight(2)Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate German collection. Acquired by the vendor's late husband in Dhaka, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan) in 1969 whilst he was working there.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Cantagalli Iznik style pottery bowl Italy, 20th Centuryof deep rounded form on a long stepped foot, decorated in cobalt-blue, turquoise and green with black outline with an interlace of lotuses, saz leaves and other flowers, the foot and internal rim with bands of cartouches filled with floral sprays, Cantagalli mark to base 24.5 cm. diam.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A collection of items relating to the 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire held by Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi Persia and Europe, circa 1971comprising a copy of the official menu of the state dinner, printed on vellum by Tolmer, Paris; a cased silver box with applied gold crown marked 'Husayn', 'Isfahan' and '84'; a cased Spode porcelain 'Imperial Plate of Persia' with printed description in original envelope; a cased gold plated replica of an Achaemenid sword; placement for 'S. Exc. M. Alan John Oxley' the plate 27 cm. diam.(4)Footnotes:ProvenanceAlan John Oxley, South African Consul in Tehran (1970-1973) and thence by descent. The lavish menu included: crayfish mousse, roast lamb with truffles, quail's eggs stuffed with caviar, roast peacock stuffed with foie gras, and a sorbet of vieux champagne (Moet 1911), prepared by Maxim's of Paris.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A gold-koftgari steel helmet (Khula-khud) North India, 19th Centuryof domed form surmounted by a plume holder, profusely engraved and decorated with gold overlay in vertical panels containing foliate motifs, the noseguard flanked by plume holders, the rim with cartouches containing inscriptions in nastaliq, alternating with panels of floral designs, the camail with steel and brass rings 19.5 cm. diam. approxFootnotes:Inscriptions: Two Persian couplets, one by 'Attar (d. 1221) and the other a version of Sana'i's (d. before 1141).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Muhammad Baqir Majlisi (d. 1110/1699), Miqbas al-Masabih, a text on prayers to be recited after daily prayers, copied for a certain Muhammad Quli Bikazadeh, by Muhammad Ibrahim Qumi, the well-known Safavid calligrapher, and formerly in the library of the Qajar Prince Farhad Mirza (1818-1888) Persia, dated Ramadan 1104/May-June 1693Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 84 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink within cloudbands on a gold ground, gold roundels marking verse-endings, inner margins ruled in colours and gold, occasional significant words in red, one illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, with floral illumination to the borders of ff. 1v-2r probably added in the 19th Century, catchwords and marginal commentaries outlined within gold cartouches, Qajar lacquer binding with a pattern of gold strapwork superimposed on a ground of finer scrolling vegetal motifs, cloth covers 181 x 115 mm.Footnotes:As this copy was made during the life of Majlisi, it may be one of the earliest recorded copies of this text. The patron, Muhammad Quli Bikazadeh (or his father), have not been identified. The colophon reads: The Miqbas al-masabih was copied by the order of the one close to the monarch, Muhammad Quli Bikazadeh, the beloved son of 'Abbas Quli Bikazadeh by Muhammad Ibrahim al-Qumi in Ramadan 1104 (May-June 1693).The design on the binding is similar to that on a mid-19th Century bookcover in the Khalili Collection: see N. D. Khalili, B. W. Robinson, T. Stanley, Lacquer of the Islamic Lands: Part Two, London 1997, p. 197, no. 420.Hand-written notes record that the manuscript was in the library of Prince Farhad Mirza in Sha'ban 1293/August-September 1876 and then in that of his son, Ihtisham al-Dawlah after AH 1306/AD 1888-89.These various ownership notes in the front flyleaves are as follows in detail:A. 'In turn, it entered (my library) and I am the sinner servant (of God), Farhad son of the Crown Prince - may his grave be fragrant - in the honoured month of Sha'ban 1293 (August-September 1876)'.Farhad Mirza (1818-1888) was the 15th son of 'Abbas Mirza Na'ib al-Saltanah and younger brother of Muhammad Shah. He is referred to as a Qajar Prince, Governor and bibliophile as well as a fine writer of the Persian language, with an excellent knowledge of Arabic. His love of collecting Persian and Arabic manuscripts is well-known and his library was considered as one of the best private libraries in Persia. His library was scattered after his death. For more on his political life and his achievements see M. Bamdad, op. cit., vol. iii, Tehran 1966, pp. 86-92; and Encyclopaedia Iranica (http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/farhad-mirza-motamad-al-dawla).B. 'In turn, it entered (my library) after my father's turn [...] and I am the servant of God, 'Abd al-'Ali Mirza Ihtisham al-Dawlah son of Farhad Mirza Mu'tamidal-Dawlah son of [...] Nayib al-Saltanah, the Crown Prince, 'Abbas Mirza - may their graves be fragrant. The oval seal impression reads 'Ihtisham al-Dawlah 1306 (1888-89).''Abd al-'Ali Ihtisham al-Dawlah (Ihtisham al-Mulk & Mu'tamid al-Dawlah) was the second son of Farhad Mirza. He received the title Ihtisham al-Dawlah after his father's death when his brother Uways Mirza received his father's title Mu'tamid al-Dawlah and 'Abd al-'Ali that of his brother's Ihisham al-Dawlah in AH 1305/AD 1887-88. He was Governor of Khamsah and Zanjan. He is first described as a young educated man and a poet but later on Bamdad comments: 'Despite being a literate and educated prince, he was self-satisfied, silly, undignified and a gambler'. (M. Bamdad, op. cit., vol. 2, Tehran, 1966, pp. 270-273).C. 'It is the hand of the deceased Aqa Ibrahim Qumi- may his grave be fragrant, there are eighty-four folios'.Muhammad Ibrahim Qumi was a calligrapher and illuminator of the Safavid period. Not much is known about him, though he is recorded as the teacher of Ahmad Nayrizi. The colophons of his works indicate that he copied a manuscript for Shah Sulayman. His recorded work, which includes manuscripts and lacquer illumination, is dated between AH 1070-1118/AD 1657-1706. See M. Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khawshnavisan, vol. 3, Tehran, 1348sh, pp. 625-626 and vol. 4, 1358 sh, pp. 127-129.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: • R• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Qajar embroidered wool shawl Kerman, 19th Centuryof rectangular form, woven in polychrome with a central quatrefoil motif, surrounded by boteh and floral motifs, the borders with pairs of boteh alternating with floral designs, tassel trims to each side 185 x 174.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate US collection.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maharajah Duleep Singh's personal copy of The Book of Common Prayer Oxford, 1863full brown morocco, embossed gold family crest of a lion passant surmounted by coronet and five-pointed star, embossed gold title to spine 152 x 91 mm.Footnotes:ProvenanceMaharajah Duleep Singh during his residence at Elveden Hall, by descent to his daughter princess Bamba. Gifted by the princess in the 1950s to her housekeeper Dora Crowe and thence by descent.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

An Imam, seated at a balcony with a landscape beyond Qajar Persia, mid-19th Centuryoil on canvas 84 x 44.5 cm.Footnotes:ProvenanceFormerly in the collection of Johanna Annemarie Scheltema van Putten, probably acquired between the late 1940s-1960s, and hanging at Little Hawsted House, Steep, Hampshire, UK (see photograph) until her death in 2019.Johanna Annemarie Scheltema van Putten was a Dutch national living in Steep, Hampshire, from the early 1940s. She started buying art and antiques after the war, and on the basis of the black and white photograph showing this lot in situ, it can be estimated that it was acquired at some point between the end of the war and around the 1960s.Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: † R† VAT at the prevailing rate on Hammer Price and Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Mughal woven wool garment fragment Kashmir, circa 1700of irregular rectangular form, woven in cream, green, pink, red and black wool with a repeat design of floral sprays, framed 49 x 30 cm. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate US collection, acquired in the mid 1980s. Lengths of fabric, called jamewar, were woven with simple repeat designs and no further ornamentation, unlike in shawl manufacture, to be used for tailoring clothes. For a garment fragment made from the an almost identical length of woven wool in the Tapi collection, see R. Barnes, S. Cohen and R. Crill, Trade, Temple and Court, Indian Textiles from the Tapi Collection, New Delhi, 2002, pp. 124-5, fig. 47.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Al-Jazuli, Dala'il al-Khayrat wa shawariq al-anwar, prayers, with two coloured diagrams of the Tomb of the Prophet and the Mihrab in the Mosque of the Prophet at Medina North Africa, probably Morocco, 19th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, 273 leaves, 8 lines to the page written in maghribi script in brown ink, significant words in red and blue, inner margins ruled in red, one coloured headpiece, double-page coloured stylised diagram, chapter headings in red within coloured panel with device extending into margin, additional prayers at end in another, cursive hand, several pages left blank at beginning for insertion of the usual coloured and decorated opening pages, contemporary brown leather binding with central stamped medallions, with flap 103 x 115 mm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A lithograph copy of Firdausi's Shahnama, with 57 coloured illustrations, copied by two scribes,'Abd al-Karim bin Muhammad Ibrahim al-Tabataba'i al-Isfahani al-Ardestani, and Mirza Muhammad son of Aqa Mirza 'Abdullah, known as Tabib (physician), pen-named Shahid Shirazi printed in Bombay, in the workshop of Aqa Mirza Muhammad Baqir Shirazi, commissioned by Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Shirazi, copied between Muharram 1274/September-October 1857 and Safar 1275/September-October 1858, printed in Muharram 1275/August-September 1858Persian lithograph on paper, 316 leaves, possibly incomplete and misbound, 37 lines to the page written in nasta'liq script in six columns, headings in nasta'liq script within panels, intercolumnar rules and inner margins ruled in silver, inner margins also ruled in blue ink, catchwords, page numbers, 57 coloured illustrations, mostly quarter-page, several three-quarter-page, opening prose preface, opening headpiece decorated in colour, five further decorated and coloured section openings, red leather 410 x 265 mm.Footnotes:For similar illustrated examples (though neither with coloured illustrations), see the sales in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 26th October 2020, lot 18, and 30th March 2021, lot 15.Other works by the two scribes are recorded: two by 'Abd al-Karim al-Tabataba'i, dated AH 1269/AD 1852-53 and AH 1265/AD 1848-49 (see M. Bayani, vol. 3, pp. 412-13); and a lithographed copy of Rudat al-Safa, printed in Bombay in AH 1271/AD 1854-55 by Muhammad ibn 'Abdullah Shirazi (Bayani, vol. 4, p. 786).The opening full-page lobed cartouches state that this lithographed copy of the Shahnama was commissioned by Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Shirazi. From the beginning to the end of part two were copied by 'Abd al-Karim bin Muhammad Ibrahim al-Tabataba'i al-Isfahani al-Ardestani, and it was printed in the workshop of Aqa Mirza Muhammad Baqir Shirazi in the Port of Bombai in Muharram 1275/August-September 1858.The prose text of the preface is on the compilation, correction and edited version produced from studying 17 copies, which had been done earlier, but had it not been for Nasir al-Din Haydar, King of Oudh (Awadh), this would have not been achieved at all. The copies used were the corrected copy of Muhammad Sa'id Rampuri of the Calcutta edition of AH 1240/AD 1824-25, and later in 1829. The preface ends with the scribe's name 'Abd al-Karim al-Tabataba'i al-Isfahani al-Ardestani, and is dated AH 1275/AD 1858-59. There is a section on the number of years each king ruled, arranged in panels. The colophon of the additions (mulhaqat) is dated the last day of Muharram 1274/20th September 1857.There is also a section acting as dictionary for rare and difficult terms. This is followed by 14 couplets by the poet Muhsin, pen-named Ta'ib (unidentified), in praise of the patron Muhammad Sadiq, each couplet ending with the name Firdausi and ending with the completion date in abjad, AH 1275/AD 1858-59. The final colophon says that it was commissioned by Aqa Muhammad Sadiq Shirazi with supervision by Haji Mirza Mutallib in the workshop of Aqa Mirza Muhammad Baqir and copied by Mirza Muhammad son of Aqa Mirza 'Abdullah known as Tabib (physician) and pen-named Shahid Shirazi in Safar 1275 (September-October 1858). The full-page illustrations include Firdausi and the four court painters before Sultan Mahmud; and the Sasanian ruler Aushirvan enthroned.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A Mughal jade mirror in a fitted Qajar lacquer case made for Hamzah Mirza Hishmat al-Dawlah, Amir-i Jang, uncle of Nasir al'Din Shah Qajar North India and Persia, the mirror 17th/ 18th Century, the lacquer case made between AH 1295 (AD 1868-69) and AH 1297 (AD 1880)the mirror of octagonal form, the back carved in relief with a central flowerhead surrounded by foliate tendrils and other flowerheads, the border with repeating foliate motifs, the front with bevelled mirror glass, within a hatched gold band, the fitted lacquer case of octagonal form with hinged lid and silver clasp, decorated in polychrome and gilt with floral sprays, perching birds and nastaliq inscriptions to cover and reverse, the interior of the lid with a border of undulating floral vines 13.2 x 9.3 cm. Footnotes:ProvenanceHamzah Mirza Hishmat al-Dawlah, Amir-i Jang (d. 1880).Private Greek collection, acquired by the vendor's grandfather whilst ambassador to Iran in the 1960s. Inscriptions: two Persian couplets in praise of Hamzah Mirza Hishmat al-Dawlah, Amir-i Jang.Hamzah Mirza Hishmat al-Dawlah, Amir-i Jang was the 21st son of 'Abbas Mirza and the uncle of Nasir al-Din Shah. He was appointed Minister of War, and titled Hishmat al-Dawlah in AH 1285 (AD 1868-9). He held governorship of various provinces during his life. For more information see M. Bandad, Dictionary of National Biography of Iran, Vol. 1, pp.462-8 and H. Mahbubi Ardakani, chehel sal tarikh-e iran, additional notes on al-ma'athir wa al-athar, vol. 2, Teheran, 1368 sh. (1989), pp.465-6).The gold surrounding the mirror glass is directly comparable to that on a mirror dated to c. 1700 in the Victoria and Albert Museum from the collection of Colonel Charles Seton Gutherie (02587(IS).Important Notice to BuyersSome countries e.g., the US, prohibit or restrict the purchase by its citizens (wherever located) and/or the import of certain types of Iranian-origin works. As a convenience to buyers, Bonhams has marked with the symbol R all lots of Iranian (Persian) origin. It is each buyer's responsibility to ensure that they do not bid or import a lot in contravention of the sanctions or trade embargoes that apply to them.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * R* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.R This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Guru Har Krishen by Dwarka Dass (India, 20th Century), circa 1950-60oil on board, signed Dwarka/Shri Sharda Arts lower right 61 x 46 cm.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Lt. Col. Alexander Beatson, A View of the Origin & Conduct of the War with Tippoo Sultaun G. & W. Nicol, London, 1800Comprising a Narrative of the Operations of the Army under the Command of Lieutenant-General George Harris, and of the Siege of Seringapatam, 433 pp., engraved portrait frontispiece, 4 folding engraved maps and plans (one hand-coloured), two folding tables, contemporary calf 4to, 270 x 220 mm.Footnotes:The tables and maps comprise:The Order of Battle of the army under the command of General Harris.A Plan of the Attack upon the North West Angle of Seringaptam.A Sketch of the Environs of Seringapatam.A Map of the Dominions of the late Tippoo Sultaun, exhibiting their Partition among the Allied Powers (hand-coloured).A Table of Revenues.An Abstract of Tipu's territories and their overseers, population, etc.Colonel Beatson was 'late aide-de-camp to the Marquis Wellesley, Governor-General of India, and Surveyor-General to the Army in the Field'.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: •• Zero rated for VAT, no VAT will be added to the Hammer Price or the Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

A woven wool shawl Kashmir, circa 1840of square form, woven in polychrome, the black panel with four botehs with a border of floral sprays, embroidered inscription, the borders with floral and foliate interlace overlaid with boteh, embroidered trim to two sides 159 X 163 cm. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate US collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Ismail Gulgee (Pakistani, 1926-2007)Untitled (Four figures) signed upper leftfelt tip on paper74.5 x 54cm (29 5/16 x 21 1/4in).Footnotes:ProvenanceLea and Richard L. Sneider, acquired in Karachi, 1965.Thence by descent to the owners.Richard Lee Sneider (1922-86) was a distinguished U.S. Foreign Service Officer. He served as Political Counsellor in the U.S. Embassy in Karachi, Pakistan between 1962-65. He went on to serve as the US Ambassador to Korea between 1974-78. After moving back to New York, his wife, Lea Sneider (1925-2020), became a renowned dealer of Japanese and Korean folk art and served on the Board of Directors of The Korea Society. Her collection of Korean art is bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

B. Vithal (Indian, 1935-1992)Untitled (Bull) bronze25.5 x 33cm (10 1/16 x 13in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate European Collection: acquired by the owner's father between the 1960s-1980s when he worked at the Portuguese Embassy in India.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Ismail Gulgee (Pakistani, 1926-2007)Untitled (Polo Players) signed and dated Gulgee'71 lower leftoil on canvas77 x 114cm (30 5/16 x 44 7/8in).In original frameFootnotes:ProvenancePrivate Dutch Collection: presented to the owner's father in Pakistan in 1972 as a parting gift from his employer, the Shell State Oil Refinery.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1915-2011)Untitled (Woman spearing snake) signed lower leftwatercolour on paper38.1 x 56cm (15 x 22 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate US Collection: acquired from the artist by the owner's father in 2004.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Nikhil Biswas (Indian, 1930-1966)Two works: Untitled (Horse and Carriage); Untitled (Cityscape) both signed lower right and lower left respectively, the second dated indistinctly first dated '62, the second dated ink and wash on paper37.7 x 27.5cm (14 13/16 x 10 13/16in).and slightly smaller(2)This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Shanti Dave (Indian, B. 1931)Untitled oil and encaustic on canvas175.2 x 261.6cm (69 x 103in).label on stretcher: Not to be taken from the Library.Footnotes:ProvenanceHaverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA (deaccessioned): acquired in the late 1990s-early 2000s.Born in Badpura, Gujarat in 1931, Dave completed his graduate and post-graduate studies at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Maharajah Sayajirao University of Baroda under the tutelage of N.S Bendre. It was here that he co-founded the Baroda Group in 1957, alongside Bendre and other artists that included Bhupen Khakhar and Gulam Mohammed Sheikh. The group emphasised the importance of promoting contemporary art and incorporated elements from Rabindranath Tagore's school, Shantiniketan, the Barnes Foundation and Bauhaus. Upon graduation, Dave was initially employed as a commercial artist, making banners and signboards for films before moving on to making commissioned murals, for the offices of Air India in Delhi, London and New York. The present unusually large lot with its use of unconventional materials, such as encaustic is an example of the sort of murals that Dave is renowned for. The work illustrates a blend of western expressionism and Indian metaphysics and incorporates tantric elements and earthy obscurity. For a similar albeit smaller work sold in these rooms, see Bonhams, New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 18th March 2013, lot 127.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

K.H. Ara (Indian, 1917-2001)Untitled (Boats) signed lower rightWatercolour on paper31.2 x 45.2cm (12 5/16 x 17 13/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Indian Collection.ExhibitedContinuum: Progressive Artists Group, Delhi Art Gallery, Delhi, India, 2011PublishedK. Singh, Continuum Progressive Artists Group, 2011, p.194This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

K.H. Ara (Indian, 1917-2001)Untitled (Still Life with Sunflower) signed 'ARA' lower centreOil and pastel on paper74.4 x 54.8cm (29 5/16 x 21 9/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Indian Collection: acquired by the owner from Sotheby's New York, Modern and Contemporary South Asian Art, 10th September 2012, Lot 69.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1915-2011)Untitled (Horse) ink on paper107 x 71.5cm (42 1/8 x 28 1/8in).1990Footnotes:ProvenanceChristie's, Southeast Asian and 20th Century Indian Pictures, Hong Kong, 6 July 2003, Lot 82.Private Singapore Collection: acquired from the above by the owner.The horse appeared in Husain's work from the 1950s onwards, and it is perhaps one of the defining characteristics of his entire oeuvre. As a child in Indore, he used to be taken to a local farrier. On his trip to China in 1952 he studied Sung dynasty representations. But primarily he knew the horse as a motif from stories of the martyrdom of the Imam Husain, as well as the mounts of the Hindu princes, the aswamedha. As well as these formal allusions the horse represents energy, power and fury.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Paramjit Singh (Indian, b. 1935)Untitled signed and dated 90; signed and inscribed on the reverse oil on canvas111 x 76.5cm (43 11/16 x 30 1/8in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Singapore Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Arup Das (Indian, 1924-2004)Untitled (Villagers) signed lower leftoil on canvas61 x 122cm (24 x 48 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate Dutch Collection.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1915-2011)Untitled (Woman with a crow) signed lower rightwatercolour on paper38 x 50.9cm (14 15/16 x 20 1/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate US Collection: acquired from the artist by the owner's father in 2004.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Maqbool Fida Husain (Indian, 1915-2011)Untitled (Seated women in a landscape) 2004oil pastel on card29 x 45.5cm (11 7/16 x 17 15/16in).Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate US Collection: acquired from the artist by the owner's father in 2004.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

Abdur Rahman Chughtai (Pakistani, 1897-1975)Pet Bird signed with title in pencil in lower borderdry-point etching on paper19 x 17cm (7 1/2 x 6 11/16in).This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ** VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com