Each bowl is decorated in various shades of cobalt blue above a band of moulded lotus petals with cartouches enclosing different animals qilin, ph...

The centre is decorated with a panel depicting a scholar with an attendant holding a fan in a fenced garden, surrounded by a petal band. The cavet...

Two Chinese porcelain lanterns, the spreading feet decorated with cartouches enclosing floral leafy sprays and ruyi heads, the middle sections sty...

The dish is decorated to the interior with bees hovering over peonies blossoming branches, encircled by a border with cartouches enclosing flower ...

The upper surface of the rim is decorated and gilt with a flower diaper border with cartouches of birds and flowers. The exterior is decorated in ...

The dish is decorated to the centre with a star-shaped floral panel surrounded by four quatrefoil cartouches enclosing various flowers, all separa...

A pair of Tibetan cabinets, with painted cartouches and two pairs of double doors, raised on straight feet. The cabinet features a painted façade ...

A conjoined pink sandstone torso carving of a couple, wearing a sampot secured with a belt and with a fish-tail shaped sash falling to the front, ...

A Chinese porcelain charger, decorated to the centre with a set of panels shaped as a flower head, with the centre enclosing a flower on a seeded ...

A Chinese Porcelain bowl decorated in famille rose enamels with two gilt cartouches enclosing Magu with a servant and a deer in landscape, alterna...

The teapot is modelled with a strap handle, and a straight spout decorated with flower sprays. The globular body is decorated with two ladies, one...

The charger is decorated to the centre with a dignitary and a lady in a pavilion accompanied with servants and attendants, looking at ladies in sa...

The cover is decorated with a shaped panel enclosing floral scrolls, all reserved on ground of dense 'golden horn' scrolls. The box base is decora...

Composed of six pieces, the reliquary has a circular section, with a diameter - maximum near the base - which gradually decreases and becomes smal...

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

The brown ground woven in ivory silk with verses from the Quran in elegant thuluth script. The central cartouche with a large roundel of floral le...

The curved double-edged blade with central ridge and decorated with cartouches enclosing a flower, the hilt carved with palmettes and rosettes wit...

Cotton covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design, including thuluth, naskh and square Kufic scripts, in assorted colors,...

Gouache color heightened with gold on paper, depicting al-Masjid al-Haram with the kabaa in the centre surrounded by the four Maqams of the Islami...

A large cotton shirt (jama) covered with text written in a variety of scripts, including thuluth, and square Kufic, in assorted colors, arranged i...

A Hindu manuscript on lined paper, 293ff., with 6ll. of black, gold and red ink Devanagari script to the page, the text accompanied by eight polyc...

Arabic manuscript on paper, covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design inculding square Kufic and Maghribi scripts, in as...

Rectangular, heavily embroidered in silver and silver-gilt threads on a predominantly black cotton ground, consisting of an upper section with a r...

Austrian cold painted bronze study, Vienna, c. 1900. modelled as an Arab walking alongside his camel, naturalistically painted in enamel colours. ...

A rectangular cotton woven panel with cartouches enclosing the " Oh Hafiz, The Protector" and Nada ALI. The nada 'ali quatrain runs as follows: ...

Of shallow rounded form with everted rim on a short foot, decorated in cobalt-blue on a white ground with one bird perching on rocks surrounded by...

Of rounded form with raised central boss and everted rim and rests on a small foot, finely incised and decorated with black lac, the interior with...