Persian text, two lines elegant black nastaliq script within clouds on gold and polychrome ground, the outer border heavily gilt and decorated wit...

Gouache and watercolour pigments heightened with gold on textile, depicting a couple playing a music on a harp instrument, wearing elegant robes a...

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper. Painting: 15 by 22 cm. With frame: 28 by 36 cm.

An Ottoman calligraphic panel, Arabic manuscript on paper, written in large elegant thuluth script, shaped as circles within each other and dated ...

An illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Majnun opens the door of a maqam surrounded by a crow...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young man wearing a sky-blue robe with elaborate turban, a young woman wearing a gilt splashed red robe, ...

Ink on paper with the use of gold, inner borders decorated with animals and vegetation in colors and gold, outer border with illuminated panels cu...

Arabic compositions applied on to natural leaves in gold thuluth, mounted on black archival boards, glazed and framed. In the form of a stork, t...

Sahih Al-Akhabr in the lineage of the good fatimid mastersArabic manuscript on paper, 146ff. with 25ll. to each page written in black ink in beau...

An Arabic manuscript on paper, 71 leaves with 31 lines to each page, written in black naskh script. Catchwords and titles in red ink, the upper p...

Arabic manuscript on paper, the backside with 5ll. written in large muhaqqaq script, gold rosette verse markers outlined in black and pointed by b...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 16 leaves, 7 lines to the page written in elegant black naskh script in black ink on a gilt ground, ruled in polychrom...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in brown Maghribi script, catchwords in red and green ink, polychrome verse rosette markers outlined...

Persian manuscript on paper, 193 ff. with 14 lines to the page arranged in two columns separated by gilt floral scrolls, written in nasta’liq scri...

Manuscript on paper, Ink and gold on burnished paper, with 7 lines of alternating elegant gold and black diwani script, a monogram and a signature...

Comprising the 15th juz’, Arabic manuscript on paper, 18 leaves plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 11 lines of black thuluth script, Basamallah ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 9 lines to each page, written in black Muhaqqaq script, with gold rosette verse markers pointed by polychrome dots, di...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 20 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, each page with 9 lines. The first, central and the last line in very elegant black ...

Comprising the 4th and 5th juz’, Arabic manuscript on paper, 36 leaves, each folio with 11 lines of elegant black naskh script, surah headings in ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 17 lines of large black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, gold rosette verse markers outline...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each folio with six lines of elegant sepia Maghribi script. Gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and pointed ...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each page with 9 lines written in maghribi script in sepia ink, double brown roundel verse markers, red diacritic mar...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 11 lines to the page written in elegant naskh script in black ink, gold roundels outlined in black and pointed by oran...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 291ff. each page written in black naskh script within double red borders, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black...

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 35 lines written in black Maghribi script, catchwords in gilt ink outlined in black, gold verse rosette markers outli...

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines of black naskh script, tajwid in red, within gold and black rules, gold and polychrome r...

Arabic manuscript on paper, written in large gilt thuluth script, depicting a large flower shaped decoration consisting of a chain of the Arabic l...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 19 leaves with 11 lines to each page, written in thuluth, naskh and muhaqqaq script. The bismallah of each surah writt...

Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 53ff. with 2 fly-leaves, written in black ink, titles and catchwords in red ink, ruled in red border. Large c...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with later added interlinear Persian translation, 45 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, 9 lines to each page in elegant black m...

Arabic manuscript on paper, complete Quran, 10 lines to each page, written in large black naskh script, catchwords in large script, diacritics and...

Rectangular in shape, two dark green velvet panels stitched together, each side is heavily decorated with a thread of gold-plated and silver-plate...

Bowl in light grey-beige clay covered with a white slip, decoration painted in black under a magnificent turquoise glaze, thicker on the bottom wh...

A heavy glass seal, cast of circular form stamped on one side with a six-line kufic inscription. "Ordered it the Servant of Allah, Commander of t...

A Kashan lustre pottery rosewater sprinkler with squat circular body and tapering neck with everted rim, painted in dark and yellowish brown on a ...

The octagonal tile painted with a central square panel issuing scrolling floral designs from each corner, the central square panel filled with fou...

Siliceous paste. The thin-walled, fragile vase is supported by a small annular foot; its spherical but squashed body ends in a vertical rim. Th...

An outstanding hemispherical bowl, decorated with a black and white pattern painted under a beautiful turquoise glaze. The interlaced motifs int...

A glass bowl with conical sides, decorated to the centre in honey-coloured lustre with two elegant peafowls flaring their feathers, the walls with...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the ruler sitting against a bolster and with a hookah pipe in his hand and attendants stand behind. He watc...

With flaring sides, decorated in manganese-brown and red on a cream ground with a band of Kufic inscription around the sides, one side with a furt...

In the Mamluk style, of hexagonal cylindrical form standing on knopped baluster feet supporting arched openings, an arched opening with two doors ...

Of typical form with raised knop at the front and the back, the curved wooden frame with the tughra of Mahmud II and the coat of arms of the Otto...

51.5 by 51.5 cm. CATALOGUE NOTE Similar one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum.

Rising from flat base to oval shaped body with slightly flaring rim, open slightly curved spout also with flaring rim, the body decorated with car...

Of fan shape, composed of three rows, pierced with a large thuluth inscription amongst interlacing spiraling vines in the centre, between two rows...

An Islamic Kashan figure of a bird, with a stand covered with a turquoise crackle glaze and decorated with black lines. Width: 10 cm. Height:...

A Qajar engraved brass Qibla indicator, the lid opening, the face engraved with astrological signs. Indicator Astrolabe. Folding engraved gnomen. ...

An Ottoman wooden box inlaid with mother of pearl, decorated with roundels enclosing engraved Christian figures. 15 by 25 cm. Height: 17 cm.

With rectangular body on small four feet, the cover and the four sides inlaid and engraved with different figural scenes, a king in his court, the...

A large mother-of-pearl inlaid wood Mirror of rectangular form with feet and tapering crest, decorated in mother of pearl fragments featuring leaf...

Of typical shape, the turban holder shelf slanting forward at 2/3 of the full height. The decoration consisting of mother-of-pearl and bone fragm...

Of columnar form, with flaring foot and everted rim, the body marked with two rings, the main register with engraved decoration comprising of alte...

Of rectangular form with feet and tapering crest, decorated in mashribiyya, mother-of-pearl inlay, the crest in openwork with interlaced vines. Th...

The flat cartouche with cusped ends, the body with extremely elegant and bold calligraphy against a background of finely worked cut steel spiralin...

A fragment of the inner curtain of sacred kiswa for the inner wall of the Kabaa with an inscribed weave in darker black silk over a black ground. ...

A Persian pottery bottle vase with compressed globular body resting on a short foot, the narrow tapering neck joined to a wide flaring fluted mout...

With rounded base and sloping shoulder rising to a triangular-section rim, the body decorated with a band of poetry in thuluth reserved against ar...

A brass bowl standing on a small flaring base with rounded sides leading to a lipped rim, the rim pierced with a band of interlocked floral scroll...

Of typical shape, the turban holder shelf slanting forward at 2/3 of the full height. The decoration consisting of mother-of-pearl, bone and wood...