Asian art

Three couplets written in black nasta’liq script reserved in clouds on a cream colored ground, arranged in two vertical columns divided by a light...

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper, consisting of four lines of strong Nasta'liq script ( Nada Ali) within cloud bands, set against a gi...

Ink heightened with gold on paper, depicting the famous sufi Haji Bektash wearing coat and a cap, his right hand holding his beard, appear to be s...

An Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 25 ll in black, red and blue ink, written in thuluth and nasck script. The upper section with Quran 109...

Arabic manuscript on paper in scroll form, written in black Ghubar script of the whole Quran, the headpiece with gold and royal blue decoration en...

Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 33 ff. with 2 fly-leaves, each page with 7ll. written in naskh script, Turkish text in red ink, te...

Ottoman manuscript on paper, 9 lines of diwani curving upward in black ink, with golden dots. The headpiece with a gold tughra of Sultan Abdul Ham...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and black rules, gold rounde...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a gilt and black border. Surah headings in r...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 320ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a double red borde...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 310ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a polychrome and g...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a red and gilt border. Surah headings in whi...

Arabic manuscript on paper, a single paper with 38 ll. written in black naskh script, dated 19 Muharram 982 AH. Statements and seals. A large...

Arabic manuscript on paper depicting prayers in honor of the Prophet Muhammad, each folio with 10 lines, written in elegant black naskh script, wi...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 13 lines to the page, the upper and lower line in large blue thuluth script, the middle line in large gold thuluth scr...

Arabic manuscript on cloth, with Mecca and Medina drawings, prayers and Quran verses. A Single cloth scroll divided into different main divisions ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 10 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, written in 17 lines in elegant naskh and thuluth script, each page written horizontally, ...

An Ottoman shirt made from the inner kiswa, with an inscribed weave in cream color over a deep red silk ground. Embellished with a prominent inscr...

Formed as an arch, the central niche with pointed arch under semi-circular top, the spandrels with crescent shaped medallions filled with religiou...

Arabic manuscript on paper, with Mecca and Medina drawings, prayers and Quran verses. Single scroll divided into different main divisions with thu...

Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, 13 lines of black diwani, beneath the tughra of Sultan Mahmud II in gold and polychrome. Very decorative and ...

The lower cubic section surmounted by canopy in the form of a pyramid, of red, green and black silk profusely embroidered with silver and gilt-sil...

A metal thread calligraphic band for the tomb of the prophet (Hujrat Al-Qabr Al-Nabawi Al-Sharif) in Medina, of elongated rectangular form, the re...

Two green Kabaa kiswa brocades or samadiyah, of square form placed always on the four corners of the Kabaa. Each embellished in silver and gilt wi...

Watercolor on stucco heightened with gold, depicting a large roundel enclosing a view of Mecca, central al-Masjid al-Haram with seven minarets, an...

An Ottoman shirt made from the inner kiswa, with an inscribed weave in cream color over a deep green silk ground. Embellished with a prominent ins...

Two wooden Mihrab shaped panels, decorated and gilt with flower scrolls and gilt inscriptions. Length: both 130 cm. Width: 87 cm.

Four wooden calligraphic panels, each of rectangular form and stylised with inscriptions of poems and religious invocations. Largest: 90 by 2...

An Ottoman tombak door knocker pierced with interlacing openwork of floral leafy sprays. Diameter: 13 cm.

A Fritware bowl fragment decorated in cobalt blue, black and emerald green with interwoven split palmettes against a bole-red ground. Height: 13...

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

Of rectangular shape, resting on four animal head shaped feet, each side carved with multiple columns of gilt engraved inscriptions, bordered with...

Of rectangular shape, the gold velvet voided on a cream ground with border design of carnations, rosettes and tulips with palmettes, silver-thread...

Of square form, embroidered in gilt threads on a deep red velvet ground with a central floral roundel surrounded by flower branches and foliage. ...