With flat base and slightly sloping sides, the upper edge with slight recess to fit a lid, the exterior wooden surface overlaid in a succession of...

The pyriform body with re-curved ear-form handle and bird thumb-piece, the main field of decoration incised and nielloed with a band of entwining ...

The parcel-gilt ring inscribed in mirror writing with the name of Baidu, the underside with incised heraldic eagle. 2.2 cm. max. diam. CATALOGUE N...

Rounded-cut ruby engraved with Quran 65 surah Al-Talaq v.2-v.3 with later gilt silver ring.2.3 cm. max. diam.

Two Tiraz textile fragments, both decorated with a woven dark black inscriptions on a beige background, the inscriptions: 'upon the messenger of t...

On a short foot, the cylindircal body with flat shoulder rising through a slightly flaring neck to a tapering spout and a mouth with an everted ri...

An intact gilded and enameled glass mosque lamp on a short rounded foot, with high flaring conical mouth, six applied loop handles around the body...

Islamic Wooden door or window panel from Alhambra Palace, Andalucia Spain with moorish calligraphy style ??? ???? ??? ???? 'Wa la galiba ilallah' ...

Of elongated rectangular form, the face carved with a single line of inscription in thuluth on a ground of scrolling palmette bearing vines, above...

JEAN-LÉON GÉRÔME, French1824 – 1904THE PRISONEROil on panel43 by 77 cm. Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and ...

A PROCESSION (recto); a BAZAAR (verso)Signed with initials ‘MB’ (lower right)Watercolor on paper.59.5 by 47 cm.PROVENANCEChristie’s Amsterdam: Wed...

Comprises sixteen domed ivory pieces (narads) and two ivory long dice (usually called pasas). The pieces are of characteristically dome-shaped sol...

Each of rectangular form with a single central upper projection and two lower projections to the sides, the main panel carved with a copulating co...

A pair of large cloisonné flasks and covers, China, circa 1880-1900, comprising two large vessels decorated with central calligraphic design betwe...

Mosque lamp, bronze with cloisonné enamel decoration25.5 cm. high, 24 cm. diam.67.5 cm total heightCATALOGUE NOTEAs early as the 9th century, a la...

The set including a basin and a pitcher, finely painted in rich green enamel with floral decorated cartouches.Throughout the 18th century and in t...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, laid down on an album page with narrow gold border rules.Painting: 25 by 17 cm.Leaf: 35.5 by 25.5 cm.Verso:...

Gouache pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a roundel enclosing a half portrait of Fath Ali Shah, with rounded and full face, long m...

Gouache pigments heightened with gold on paper, depicting a roundel enclosing a half portrait of Mohammad Shah, with rounded and full face, long ...

Consisting of seven linked rectangular silver pieces, enameld with different seated Sufi figures from the Persian history.Shams Al-Tibrizi, Baba R...

The steep sides rising from a short spreading chrysanthemum-shaped foot to a slightly flared rim, carved in low relief to the exterior with three ...

A double-edged watered-steel blade with a central ridge , the jade hilt with swelling grip inlaid overall with engraved gold flowers heads and sma...

A double-edged watered-steel blade, the rock-crystal hilt with scroll quillons and rounded pommel, inlaid with gold and gem-stones with leaves, th...

A Timurid spinach jade dagger hilt carved with floral motifs, with downturned gilt cockerel head quillion set with red jewels.with a 16th century ...

Of baluster form with broad crossguard, elongated forte, disc pommel and knop terminal, the green stone set with rubies and diamonds with flowerin...

Ink and watercolor on paper, laid down on wooden panel, depicting a mihraab enclosing Arabic inscriptions in elegant thuluth and tughra script.To ...

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, 14 lines written diagonally in black naskh script, reserved in clouds on a cream colored ground and ruled in gold and ...

Arabic manuscript on wood, written in black different scripts, at the top a cartouche enclosing the Basmallah in Muhaqqaq black script on a polych...

Single leaf, laid down on a wooden panel topped with crown carving, text panel at the top with the blessing in a single line of black muhaqqaq scr...

Of rectangular form, embroidered in silver and gilt thread over a black silk ground, the surface broken into cartouches and panels of various shap...

Single leaf, text panel at the top with the basmallah in a single line of black muhaqqaq script , then a circular text-block with 11 lines black i...

Single leaf, text panel at the top with the basmallah in a single line of black muhaqqaq script, then a circular text-block with 11 lines black na...

Of typical form, with hinged shelf and bracket sections, decorated overall with gilt engraved scrolling geometric designs containing cartouches at...

An Ottoman wooden panel consisting of three parts, the central octagonal section decorated with a central roundel enclosing "Kalimaat Al-Tawhid" i...

A shirt (jama) covered with text written in thuluth and square Kufic scripts, in assorted colors, roundels and cartouches.The inscriptions include...

Of cylindrical form with angular handle, the white ground decorated in green, bole-red, cobalt-blue and black with a band of large blue scrolling ...

The ewer of elegant melon fluted baluster form with high curving tubular spout, s-scroll handle linking neck and belly with cast curved leaf desig...

A pair of Damascus underglaze painted pottery border tiles, Syria, 17th century, each of square form painted in cobalt-blue and green on white gla...

Comprising 13 fragments from the base and the rim of a ‘Golden Horn’ vessel decorated with intricate cobalt-blue spiral stems, thin paired lines b...

Probably a base or basin.The white interior painted in blue, black and green underglaze decoration of fishes. The flaring rim and foot with swirli...

The barometer of rectangular shape, the top domed with the image of the Kaaba and written in Arabic 'Mecca'. The bottom of square form with a circ...

Of rectangular form and inlaid with mother-of-pearl in low relief on a wooden panel, depicting Al-Kaaba in Al-Masjid Al-Haram with Haijr Ismail, z...

Each of rectangular form, flaring towards the top with ornamented vaulting to the sides, profusely carved and painted in polychrome with vegetal a...

A wall panel of rectangular form painted in cobalt-blue and turquoise, the surface moulded with relief floral detailed containing 6 central stella...

Of rectangular and concave form with pointed arched top, decorated in turquoise, white and aubergine glaze, deeply carved with a lattice design of...

A Persian pottery bowl with small foot, flaring sides and everted rim, decorated in brown and green slip with vegetal and knotted kufic calligraph...

Shallow with wide rim on short foot, earthenware decorated in white slip with dark brown and red designs under a transparent glaze 34 cm. diam. CA...

The egg-shaped jar, with three small handles, is covered entirely with a heavy dark-green glaze, which is common in Sassanid ceramic production.Th...

Of pyriform shape, with hinged dome cover, ringed neck and serpentine handle and spout with dragon-head terminal, engraved with diagonal flutes co...

The slightly edged double-edged watered steel blade with a raised central spine, the tombak hilt of typical form with gilt inscriptions. The tomba...

Of circular shape, standing on a rounded ring foot with two pouring spouts, stylized in openwork silver with central roundels enclosing flower-hea...

The double-edged watered steel blade with central spine, the hilt is carved out of a greyish and milky white agate. The sheath made of wood covere...

Of rectangular form, embroidered in silver and silver-gilt thread over a black silk ground, the surface broken into cartouches of various shapes a...

A woven cotton flag or banner of rectangular form, the central panel formed of a series of bands on a cream ground, to lower section centre two re...

The Hizam, or belt, is an inscribed band that encircles the upper part of the Kaaba, of rectangular form, inscribed over a black silk ground, the ...

Of rectangular form, decorated in golden lustre over an opacified tin glaze, the raised decoration of patterned band against a ground of scrolling...

Cast and engraved brass inlaid with niello.An ewer (ibrik) with a swollen baluster form with a tapering cylindrical neck terminating at the should...

Of square form consisting of three rectangular fragments stitched together, woven with cream and red silk with 9 lines of Quran verses in elegant ...

An Ottoman silver belt buckle in two detachable parts, the central section in the form of a trefoil flanked by two further horizontal sections, al...