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The Sexton Blake interest, a collection of related novels, re-print hardback illustrated books, original playing cards game etc, (one box).

Vinyl - House / Hip Hop 14 rare UK / US albums and 12" singles including test pressings to include Fingers Inc 'Another Side' (1988, UK 1st pressing double album, JACK TRAX FING 1), A rare and in demand UK double LP both records are at least EX, Gatefold sleeve is at least VG+, M-DUBS Vol. 2 (1996 UK 1st pressing 12", BABY SHACK Recordings, SSDM 002), A rare garage house 12" Vinyl at least EX, Sleeve at least VG+, Company Flow 'Juvenile Technique' (1994 US pressing, 12? LIBRA Records LIB 12003) A rare Hip Hop 12" vinyl at least EX+ Sleeve EX, Bizarre Inc 'Playing With Fire (The Climax)' (1991 UK Test Pressing 12", VINYL SOLUTION Records, STORM 25RT) Rare House 12" Test Pressing, Vinyl & Sleeve at least EX+, Ellery Cowles 'Released Toxins EP' (2018 UK Test Pressing 12", REVOKE Records REVOKE 005) Acid / Techno 12" Test Pressing Vinyl EX+, Stealth / Stelf / Stelf Man 'ED209' UK Breakbeat 12" Test Pressing + promo sheet, EX+ / EX+, Dennis Motto UK 12" Test Pressing, Georgie Porgie UK Double 12" Test Pressing, Winx US 12", Mellow Man Ace 'Escape From Havana' (US Album), Salt N Pepa UK Album, Nasty Rox - UK Promo Album, Success 'Tripwire' UK 12" Test Pressing, plus another 12" Test Pressing

AN EARLY TO MID 20TH CENTURY WALNUT AND BEECH EXTENDING DINING TABLE with a single leaf and separate later games playing surface top, extended length 162cm x closed length 129cm x depth 86cm x height 76cm, four splat back chairs, and a similar sideboard with three central drawers, width 139cm x depth 54cm x height 99cm and a similar walnut dressing table/chest of four drawers, width 114cm x depth 52cm x height 77cm (7)

J. de Jong. First half of the 20th century. Beach scene with children playing. Oil paint on panel. Dimensions: H 42 x W 53 cm. In good condition.

Not signed. Second half of the 20th century. Cats playing with dog. Oil paint on panel. Dimensions: H 30 x W 40 cm. In good condition.

Antique English Victorian mahogany cabinet for bakelite playing records et cetera. With mirror curb and three drawers, where the fronts can be folded open. One glass door, behind it compartments. Size: 150 x 61 x 37 cm. In good condition.

Five 18th century Chinese porcelain cups and saucers with playing fools / floral decoration. With bottom mark. Plus extra dish. One saucer glued, remaining minimal chip possible. Five cups good. Size: 5 x Ø 12 cm. In good condition.

Six Chinese porcelain cups and saucers. 18th - 19th Century. Outlined. With floral and ball playing fools decor. One chip dish, rest good. Three cups of chip, the rest is good. Size: 4.8 x Ø 12.3 cm. In good condition.

A Royal Doulton figure HN2228 'A Lady from Williamsburg'; a Franklin Porcelain limited edition figure 'Marie Antoinette'; another Catherine the Great; a M I Hummel figure 'Little Helper'; another 'Little Gardener' (af); a Tengra figure of a Clown playing the cymbal's; a Royal Doulton character toby jug D6558 Scaramouche; another smaller 'Old Charlie'

Various collectibles to include corkscrew, Royal Marine belt, cigarette cards, Seiko gentlemen's watch, Alf Cooke Ltd Centenary playing cards, sealed in presentation box, lighter, small cigar cutter, various badges, cufflinks and three ballpoint pens including two Parker examples. CONDITION REPORT The Seiko watch is not in going order.

Various items of collectible ceramics to include six pieces of Wedgwood jasperware to include eggshell blue, sage green, etc, two Gluggle jugs, Oriental vase, also a Spongebob Squarepants TY Beanie soft toy, signed by Tom Kenny (the voice of Spongebob), an Enesco Deluxe multi-action musical decorative ornament depicting mice playing pool.

A 19th century rosewood veneered and ebonised inlaid cylinder music box, playing eight airs, cylinder length 15.5cm, 43 teeth comb, no maker's name and lacking program sheet, lockable with key, length 48cm. CONDITION REPORT Case is scratched, marked and wornPlays nicely, all teeth are present on the barrel and in good conditionEscutcheon damaged

A group of vintage toys to include, 'The Original Tinker Toy', wooden construction sets for children aged three and upwards, Ridley's 'Magic Kit' for children, a boxed B&H glockenspiel, a travelling chess set in olive wood case, a Super Champions boxing toy, a quantity of various playing cards, and a quantity of various wooden toys, child's toy rifle etc.

Various vintage toys to include a clockwork tinplate pecking hen, compasses, National Life-boat pocket ball game, a wood peg doll, a rag doll, various smaller pocket dolls, whistle, vintage playing cards, Guinness playing cards, etc.

Various vintage toys to include 'The Magic Box', Primus Magic Lantern Slides, 'The Bogie Man Surprise Box' German made (af), two penny whistles, Tarot fortune telling game, playing cards, two sets of dominoes, two Gypsy fortune telling cards, snakes and ladders board, a vintage musical birthday card, happy birthday is played when the handle is turned.

Shakespeare (William). The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare. With remarks on his life and writings, by Thomas Campbell, new edition, London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1863, engraved frontispiece and additional title (both torn to upper outer blank corners), etched part titles, front blank free endpaper inscribed "This book is bound in boards made from old 'Herne's Oak' 1864", "Miranda Hall, Aug 2nd 189-", and "Michael from M. Hall, Jan 1943", also containing a few autograph inscriptions throughout the volume from various individuals from the theatre including "To Frank, very best wishes Mary Rutherford", "Frank Inscribed on Herne's Oak 19.12.80 Trevor Nunn", "For Frank - all good - L. Olivier" and a few signatures including Frances de la Tour & Gillian Rhind, all edges gilt, cloth hinges, 20th century printed marbled endpapers, sheep-backed oak boards with smooth bevelled edges (allegedly of Herne's Oak), brass boss to corner of each board, large 8vo, with a few RSC leaflets from the early 1970's/1980's loosely insertedQty: (1)NOTESHerne the Hunter and Herne's Oak are mentioned in the Merry Wives of Windsor. The popularity of The Merry Wives of Windsor led to several depictions of Herne’s Oak and also much debate as to its correct location. Herne the Hunter was thought to have lived in the time of Richard II, and the ancient tree became known as Herne’s Oak, a place where “many …do fear /In deep of night to walk”. Playing a trick on Falstaff, the wives suggest that he disguise himself by wearing a stag’s horns strapped to his head and meet there at dead of night for their long-delayed assignation. In the final scene of the play the residents of Windsor arrange for Falstaff’s humiliation to be complete, where the local children dress up as fairies and dance around the oak pinching Falstaff as they go. Herne’s Oak, in Fairies’ Dell, Windsor, attracted many visitors in the eighteenth century, but there must have been some confusion about the identity of the tree, because when gales blew it down in 1863 it was claimed by some that this was in fact a tree planted later to replace the original tree which had been felled in the 1790s. William Perry, Wood Carver to the Queen, investigated and in 1867 published a book, titled A treatise on the identity of Herne's oak, shewing the maiden tree to have been the real one. He had compared the account appearing in Samuel Ireland’s 1791 Picturesque Views of the Thames, and documents on the Park, as well as making site visits before concluding that the blown-down tree was the original one. Perry wasn’t unbiased though as he had been given pieces of the tree from which to make souvenirs, so its authenticity was of importance. It’s now generally considered that the original tree was felled as a result of George III wanting to replace some of the old, unsightly trees with young ones. The trees seem to be fated, because following the 1863 storm another was planted which in its own turn blew down in 1906.

* Recussancy & Bowls. Examination of an individual before a Recusancy session, circa 1630, single sheet with two pages of manuscript, recording an examination of someone before a Recusancy session (Recusancy was the secret practise of the outlawed Roman Catholic religion, commonly called papists), mention is made later in the text of the presence of Sir Thomas Tilsey, Sir G. Ellis, Sir H. Slingsby (1602-58), Royalist as councell at the session, mention is also made in passing to the playing of bowls (lines 4 & 21), light dust-soiling, old horizontal folds, few short closed tears and fraying to edges, folio (29.5 x 19 cm)Qty: (1)NOTESTranscript of first 21 lines containing mention of bowls playing, "The passage before the L.P. was this. H.A. having occasion to goe unto some grounde he had upon the ninteinth of August last within the Lordship of Preston in Hoderness and his way lyinge thereon a pasture ground wherein their is a bowlinge green and understandinge that C.H. was their he went a little foorth of his way to salute him who tolde him he would goe homeward with him after he had bould a rubber or two which would take him some two howers time, at which time H.A. sayd he would returne from his grounde againe unto him, and so he did, and having with him one John Burrill a blacksmith upon occasion he had to use him he asked C.H. if he weere readie to goe, his answere was that he had nowe begun a rubber and he would not goe yet, but desired H.A. to stay awhile and then he would, but findinge no certainetie in him, and H.A. his busines calling him away, he tooke leave of him, (the Companie also he liked not for their were both papists and recusants their) and as he turned his horse the Smyth followinge him carried him to Headen John and make him drunke sayd a papist one Anthonie Nevill unto whome H.A. turned back and made answere unto him, that neither he nor all the papists in Holderness could make him drunke to which he replyed that his religion was as good as his and theirs H.A. left the boulers (bowlers)."

* Watercolour Drawings. An album of sketches by S.F. Perrin, circa 1920, 15 pen, ink, and watercolour (or coloured pencil) drawings, mostly loosely inserted between 12 coloured album leaves (some mounted first), and a few laid down on album leaves, a number initialled S.F.P., comprising figure studies, including costume studies and children, a landscape of trees, and a drawing of a singer beside a grand piano against a whirl of multi-coloured light, annotated 'Impression of first hearing Roland Hayes singing in London accompd. by Lawrence Brown' signed S.F. Perrin and dated 'about 1927(?)', sheet size 18.5 x 13cm (7.25 x 5.25ins), original green wrappers printed 'Greyhound Pastel Book', front cover initialled by the artist and titled 'Scriblets', 8vo, together with 7 other original watercolours and drawings, including a framed watercolour titled 'Le Tennis', circa 1930s, depicting 2 ladies in a car, another beside holding a racket, and 2 figures playing tennis, signed F. Martinez, 19.5 x 27.5cm, and a calligraphic rendering of 'A Smuggler's Song' by Rudard Kipling, below a pen, ink, and watercolour illustration titled 'Mevagissey Lugger' signed Henson Bamford '37, 29 x 13cm, mountedQty: (8)

Aboriginal oil on fine bark, mounted on panel, depicting two figures around a fire and playing instruments in a desert landscape. Unsigned. Framed and glazed. 38cm x 25cm

Continental School. Victorian children playing a garden with puppies, oil on board, 18.5cm high, 23.5cm wide.

A twin pack of Enric Sio political playing cards, designed by Ortuno, twin pack of Waddingtons The Queen's Silver Jubilee 1977 playing cards, and two packs of Dusserre Additions Le Grand Rois de France playing cards. (4)

Two Volkstedt porcelain figures, one modelled as a boy playing a hurdy-gurdy, 15cm high (AF), the other as a fisherwoman, 15.5cm high. (2)

One box of various sets of playing cards and other ephemera

Two boxes of photo slides, a playing card box, a set of scales with wooden drawer, a leather stationery box and an inkstand

WW2 German Africa corps playing cards box

FRANCE, 60th Birthday of Albert Roussel, 1929, an Art Déco bronze medal by P.-M. Dammann for Arthus-Bertrand, bust left, rev. mermaid playing pipes, 68mm (Niggl 1730; cf. DNW 56, 814). Reverse edge knock at 9 o’clock, otherwise very fine £80-£100

A Large Continental Cold Painted Ceramic Study of Gent Playing Bowls, 48cm High

A Pair of Continental Porcelain Figures Depicting Gentleman Playing Mandolin and Girl Dancing, 16cm High

A collection of various games to include playing cards, Connect Four, Chinese Chequers, Mah Jong etc.

A "Betty Boop" playing rugby  

CARVED WOODEN FIGURE OF A BURMESE GIRL PLAYING A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT WITH PRESENTATION INSCRIPTION TO FRONT FROM ANAESTHETIST MYANMAR 29/1/95, TOGETHER WITH A QUANTITY OF SMALL BURMESE/INDIAN DOLLS

UNCUT ITALIAN PLAYING CARDS SHEET APP.SIZE: 67cm x 42.5cm

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF UNCUT PLAYING CARDS SHEET 

A satinwood parquetry box, the hinged lid opening to a velvet lined interior and an ivorine label inscribed Made by Invalid Soldiers, no.11 AGH, Caulfield (6cm x 23cm x 15cm), and a collection of vintage board games including snakes and ladders, chess, draughts, a large collection of playing cards, Blackstones Book of Magic etc. (a lot)

A mixed lot comprising two German ceramic beer steins, with metal lids, one includes music box, a W. Goebel figure of a Boy Playing a Concertina (repairs), three pewter presentation mugs and a Wade presentation mug (a lot)

Dice and Playing Cards wool tapestry panel, 90 x 90cm

NAO FIGURE OF A GIRL, 24cm high, along with other ceramic figures including a figure group of two boys playing conkers, also including two dolls

unusual Antique waltham rolled gold case and playing card dial pocket watch top wind in non working order ticks when shaken but stops no warranty given

A pair of bronze figurines of a man playing a violin and a lady dancing, both mounted on marble bases, tallest 23cm (h)

A stone composition model of a standing putto holding a cornucopia, 20th century, raised on a rectangular plinth, 161cm high overall; and a composition model of a musician putto, playing the flute and seated on a sphere, 101cm high

A mixed lot of interesting things to include lino cutting tools; dominoes; vintage playing cards; drafts pieces; vintage shoehorns; soapstone hippo etc

A mixed box of playing cards and games to include Bezique, bidge sets, pens, etc

Dorothea Sharp, RBA, ROI (British, 1874-1955)Picking flowers on a clifftop (recto), Playing on the beach (verso) signed 'DOROTHEA SHARP' (lower left)oil on canvas91.5 x 91.5cm (36 x 36in).Footnotes:ProvenanceMacConnal-Mason & Son, London.This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: ARAR Goods subject to Artists Resale Right Additional Premium.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com

CRICKETThe London Chronicle, vol. LXVI, no. 5119 [including the Laws of Cricket], 8 pages (pp.89-95), printed in 3 columns (including ine and a half columns headed 'Cricket'), red paper tax stamp on p.92, disbound, small folio (290 x 210mm.), Saturday 25 July to Tuesday 28 July 1789Footnotes:THE FIRST APPEARANCE IN A NEWSPAPER OF THE LAWS OF CRICKET, printed just two years after the formation of the MCC, and a year after the official laws of the game were introduced in 1788. The article, boldly headed 'Cricket', describes the game as 'at present so fashionable, and at all times so creditable and manly...' noting that 'While the frequent showers, however, are preventing cricket from being played so often as it otherwise would, it may not be amiss to compensate to inexperienced batsmen and bowlers... deprived of their favourite exercise, by laying before them the following'. The laws are much unchanged today, as is the weather, and the opportunity in moments when 'rain stops play' to discuss the game instead of playing it.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

CRICKETCHAMBERLAYNE (EDWARD) Angliae notitia: or, the Present State of England: With Divers Remarks Upon the Ancient State Thereof, engraved frontispiece, contemporary panelled calf, very worn [ESTC R14918], 8vo, T. Hodgkin, for R. Scot [and others], 1694Footnotes:'The natives will endure long and hard Labour, insomuch that after 12 Hours hard Work, they will go in the Evening to Foot-ball, Stool-ball, Cricket, Prison-base, Wrestling, Cudgel-playing, or some such like vehement Exercise for their Recreation' (p.52). This passage referring to cricket as a national recreation first appears in this eighteenth edition of Chamberlayne's popular seventeenth-century handbook on the social and political conditions of England, reflecting 'a relaxation of attitudes towards sports at the Restoration, [when] cricket emerged from its position of relative obscurity, and the printed word began to define it... as an element of national culture' (Alan Bateman, Cricket, Literature and Culture, 2009).Provenance: Thomas Harvey, inscription dated 1741 inside upper cover, and signature on title-page; William Johnston, nineteenth century ownership label.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

Playing Cards (7) Packs all in good condition, includes Famous views of Hong Kong, Truman 1666, Muir-Hill Model LH/I Loader, Singapore Airlines etc.

Playing Cards Games (7) including: Happy Families, British Towns, Grants, Whot etc.

A BOXED DOMINOES SET OF DOUBLE NINES (COMPLETE) AND PLAYING CARDS

A LARGE QUANTITY OF VINTAGE AND RETRO ITEMS TO INCLUDE A DECK OF 'LITTLE GREY RABBIT' PLAYING CARDS, TWO SCRAPERFOIL GIFT SETS, 'PETER RABBIT' B UILDING BLOCKS ETC

Three large Chinese inside painted snuff bottles, 20th century, of rectangular form, all with character signatures and rectangular faceted foot, two with domed green hardstone stoppers, the other with carved green hardstone stopper depicting a dragon or mythical creature, the interiors painted with four scholars beneath bamboo and tree; an inn with approaching travellers; and children playing and learning, the largest 4¾in. (12cm.) high. (3)

A small collection of Royal Copenhagen & Bing & Grondahl animal figurines, to include a Bing & Grondahl Polar bear - 2218, together with five Royal Copenhagen animal figurines to include - Pig - 1400; Kitten playing with tail - 727; pair of rabbits - 518; Rabbit eating - 1019; Trout - 1602. (6)

A pair of modern miniature Chinese barrel-shaped garden seats, blue & white, of typical form but miniature, depicting figures playing, 6¼in. (15.8cm.) high. (2)

A 19th century Swiss Etouffoirs en Acier cylinder music box, or typical form, 12in. brass cylinder playing 10 airs, part detached label, one tooth missing, working.

Mauchlin Ware Laxey Wheel box containing three sets of vintage playing cards and a brass vesta case. P&P Group 2 (£18+VAT for the first lot and £3+VAT for subsequent lots)

An oil on canvas of a clown playing golf and another glown with green hat

Edward VII oak and silver mounted 'Trinkets' box. London hallmarks. Together with a wooden and painted Bridge card box, the interior revealing crown playing cards, gin rummy score pad, Bezique marking board etc.(B.P. 21% + VAT)

Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842)-circle, Portrait of a court lady sitting on a chair playing a guitar; oil on canvas, in original gilded oval frame; on the reverse old paper label with description. 80X63cm

A collection of vintage and antique games. Including a miniature spring mechanism roulette wheel, a set of 'Lucky Chips' nude lady playing cards, two sets of dominos, one made of painted wood, the other Ringer's Black Bell Shag, tobacco advertising dominoes. Three wooden inlaid and bone cribbage boards and a boxed set of stained bone circular counters. H.7 W.21 D.8cm (largest)

Harold Harris Jones (1908-1991) A framed oil on board, choir and orchestra playing in a grand hall, signed. 49x59cm

A rare Safavid oil painting of an African soldier Persia, Isfahan, circa 1680-90oil on canvas, affixed with a fragmentary old label on the stretcher reading Portrait of an Indian Officer 122 x 79.5 cm. Footnotes:ProvenancePrivate English aristocratic collection, London. Acquired by the vendor's mother in Jaipur during a visit to the court of Maharajah Man Singh II in the mid 1960s.Bonhams have the privilege of presenting an enigmatic and unique painting depicting a flamboyant African soldier in Safavid Persia. Immensely rare, the present work is quite likely to be one of the first ever depictions of an African subject in Persian oil painting, and one of the earliest artistic records of the black African community whose descendants continue to reside in the Gulf region.Isfahan was referred to as 'half the world' (nisf-i jahan) by the 16th Century. Shah 'Abbas (reg. 1588-1629) had moved his capital from Qazwin, Safavid political power had grown, there was a flowering of culture in Persia, and Isfahan, in particular, became a nexus of trade and cultural exchange. Along with the Ottoman Sultan and the 'Grand Mughal', Safavid Persia and Shah 'Abbas ('The Sophy' or 'The Great Sophy', an expression probably deriving from a mishearing of 'Safavi'), were touchstones of grandeur and exoticism in Western consciousness at the time.One thinks of the striking image, spread across a double page in a folio volume, of the Maidan-i Naqsh-i Jahan in Isfahan, in Voyages de Corneille le Brun par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aux Orientales (Amsterdam 1718) – where the broken lines of the tents of the bazaar, where all sorts of business was being transacted amongst several nationalities, contrast with the more austere lines of the Safavid architecture surrounding them. As Cornelius de Bruyn's accompanying account put it: 'The greater part of this plaza is full of tents, where all kinds of things are sold [...] One continually sees a prodigious crowd of people and among other things a large number of people of quality who come and go to the court' (see S. R. Canby, Shah 'Abbas: the Remaking of Iran (London 2009), pp. 260-261, no. 127, illustrated). And one also thinks of the group of twenty-one paintings discussed by Eleanor Sims in her essay below – the depictions of people of various ethnicities, genders, in different forms of dress, alongside types of decorative objects - and so to our painting of a young African man.While the painting is – as Eleanor Sims argues below – a type, and one playing on variations in Safavid fashion, it must surely refer ultimately to a real-life soldier, a musketeer or tofangchi, a division of the Persian army primarily composed of foreign mercenaries. A figure (albeit one with white skin) which appears in the Kaempfner Album (produced in Isfahan in 1684-85) in the British Museum is highly reminiscent of our subject, in pose, weaponry and dress: the hat with its plume, the two straps which pass over his shoulders (to a backpack?), the accoutrements around his waist, the red-orange breeches, and the white banded gaiters. The British Museum catalogue describes him as a royal bodyguard. Leaving aside western Europeans, most foreigners in Safavid Persia, whether free or slaves, were closer to home – they were from the Caucasus, Georgia, Circassia, or notably, Armenian, in the flourishing town of New Julfa. But an African must have been in a minority, by geographical accident (and less common than in Ottoman Turkey, where black Africans, often eunuchs, were more commonly in positions of power at court). Our figure demonstrates his confidence in his rank and profession, his dress and (to some degree, at least) his wealth, create a well-to-do image, almost dandyish.Eleanor Sims traces his relation in this respect to the 'Tehran Suite' of paintings. In addition, both figures in an Afsharid oil painting, done around fifty years later, wear long coats with the same horizontal frogging on the chest (albeit with much more embroidered decoration on the coats), and the male figure wears the same vertically-striped undershirt - and these figures are of a notably higher class (the catalogue description speculated whether the male might be a son of Nadir Shah). See Sotheby's, Fine Oriental Manuscripts and Miniatures, 22nd & 23rd May 1986, lot 175 (dated to circa 1735-45).Whether he was a slave, who had come to Persia via the Arab trade from East Africa and the Indian Ocean into the Gulf (whose descendants to this day form an Afro-Iranian community in the south of the country); whether he had been freed as a condition of service in the Persian army; whether he was a free man who had ended up in the melting-pot of 17th Century Isfahan; or whether he is strictly a 'type', perhaps made African to cater to an existing European interest in blackamoors, and other signifiers of 'the exotic' (especially if he had a female companion painting, as Sims suggests) - we will doubtless never know. What does seem to be clear is that this painting is a rare, perhaps unique portrayal of an African in the Safavid army, and of an African in Persia.An African Youthby Eleanor SimsCould a picture offer any greater degree of 'exotic' than does this oil-painted figure of a young African wearing imaginatively interpreted 17th-century Safavid Persian clothing?He is one among a presently recorded number (21) of large rectangular pictures, painted in oil on canvas. All are single figures; all are dressed in fine 17th-Century Safavid clothing; all comfortably fill their picture-space. Their dress, especially that of the women, usually also distinguishes their ethnicity and religious affiliation: Muslim Persian, Armenian and Georgian Christian. Several men among the 21 may instead be Europeans in Safavid garb, but they are the exceptions within the genre. And with a different exception, none is either signed or dated; all but three are anonymous.Such paintings were almost surely commissioned by Europeans in the cosmopolitan melange of peoples visiting Safavid Isfahan in that century (Eleanor Sims, 'Five Seventeenth-Century Persian Oil Paintings', Persian and Mughal Art, ed. Michael Goedhuis, London 1976, pp. 223-32). Struck by the 'exotic' inhabitants they saw, many wanted images to take with them, when they returned to their own countries. English travellers seem to have been especially desirous of owning these 'exotic' personages, especially when they could be executed on a scale not unlike the oil-painted portraits already hanging on their walls. Indeed, many can be connected with houses or families: in Wiltshire (see Mary Arnold-Forster, Basset Down: An Old Country House, London 1949, p. 147; Eleanor Sims, 'The 'Exotic' Image: Oil-Painting in Iran in the Later 17th and the Early 18th Centuries', in The Phenomenon of 'Foreign' in Oriental Art, ed. Annette Hagedorn, Wiesbaden 2006, pp. 135–40 passim; eadem, 'Six Seventeenth-century Oil Paintings from Safavid Persia', in God is Beautiful and Loves Beauty: The Object in Islamic Art and Culture, New Haven & London 2013, pp. 343, 346-47), and in Northamptonshire, (eadem, 'Five Seventeenth-Century Persian Oil Paintings', pp. 241-48). Three are known to have been in English royal possession since the middle of the 17th century (1651; noted on the Royal Collection Trust Website; two published in Epic Iran: 5000 Years of Culture, J. Curtis, I. Sarikhani-Sandmann, and T. Stanley, London 2020, cat. 183-84). But that this youth is black makes him an especially exotic figure, even for 17th-century Isfahan.He stands in an open landscape whose horizon is at mid-figure height. The fore- and middle-ground show rows of grassy... This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: RR This lot is subject to import restrictions when shipped to the United States.For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com