Arabic manuscript on paper, 24 leaves with 8 lines to each page. First and last line written in strong large thuluth script on light copper red do...

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 217 leaves with 3 fly-leaves, 19 lines to the page written in minute naskhi script in black ink with...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, surah headings in red ink, three...

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

Two folding rectangular panels, decorated in mother-of- pearl and tortoiseshell fragments with a dense design of flowers and lattices. 110 cm. h...

Of typical form, the rounded body engraved with elegant floral sprays on hatched ground within hanging medallions with palmettes finials, interspe...

A Chinese porcelain jar, decorated to the body in copper red with four diamond-shaped panels enclosing Arabic inscriptions surrounded by ruyi-head...

A Persian pottery vase with inverted pear shaped body and truncated conical neck, the shoulder with four further necks, painted in bold reddish-br...

A Chinese porcelain dish made for the Persian market, decorated in red and black to the centre with square chart of Abjad numbers surrounded four ...

Rising from slightly spreading conical foot through rounded bulbous body to pronounced collar, the vertical mouth with slightly flaring rim and a ...

With compressed globular body rising from short vertical foot to cockerel-head mouth with pronounced comb, simple handle connecting the mouth with...

Each square element set with nine ruby gem-stones with pendant pearls, the reverse decorated in red, green, white and turquoise enamels with flora...

Each floral shaped element set with ruby, emerald, turquoise and agate gem-stones. Weight: 57.3 gr. Length: 24 cm. Diameter: 10 cm.PROVENANCE ...

Comprising a central inverted T-shape element of box construction, the face with figure-of-eight wire decoration, flanked on each side with confro...

A Byzantine gold ring with a menorah and an Aramaic inscription. A typical early Byzantine ring made with soldered circular section wire and round...

Each with an upper gadrooned shallow domed section above a larger well rounded domed element above a lower bell-shaped pendant, the main central e...

Of pear-shape, both sides wheel-cut with two bilaterally symmetrical palmettes and leaf scrolls, the top with drill hole for suspension. 4.6 cm.C...

A large cameo in dark red/brown variegated agate. This large oval cameo shows the 'Torah Ark' of the Temple of Jerusalem flanked with Jewish symbo...

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With pear-shaped body, truncated tapering neck and pinched lip attached to the body by a strap handle, decorated in black under a turquoise glaze ...

A cobalt-blue and white piece, formed of colourless or pale green glass but in this case covered with a layer of cobalt-blue glass with white and ...

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

The tile of rectangular form with cusped ends and small arch at the centre of each horizontal edge, comprising elements in cobalt-blue, turquoise,...

A pottery arch shaped panel consisting of 6 tiles, painted in cobalt blue, turquoise and opaque white with manganese purple with large cartouches ...

Of beaten sheet metal, deep rounded form, the body engraved with overlapping circular medallions containing stellar motifs alternating with oblong...

Of stellar form, decorated in lustre brown with a simurgh and dragon in flight amongst floral leafy sprays. 29 by 29 cm.

A Persian pottery bowl with conical sides resting on a spreading foot, decorated with two figures on horseback on a leafy scrolls decorated ground...

A Persian pottery bowl standing on a short straight foot with slightly flaring sides, decorated in a brownish-gold lustre, with a central roundel ...

A Persian pottery bowl standing on a small foot with conical sides, decorated in reversed- brown on a white ground with a roundel enclosing a latt...

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...

The camel is modeled standing foursquare, bears a simple howdah on its hump. Height: 22 cm. Length: 21 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection...

An Achaemenid basalt cylindrical sceptre with a lion's head finial spouting a lotus flower from its mouth. The shaft of the sceptre is grooved and...

A 16th century lustre dish, probably Valencia (Manises), with slightly raised centre and everted slightly rounded rim. The pale cream interior wit...

Of shouldered rounded form rising from the short foot to the tapering cylindrical mouth with everted rim, four handles to the shoulder,the lower s...

A pottery dish rising from short vertical foot through rounded body to everted rim, the interior painted in black under the glaze with a central r...

Of hemispherical form on short foot, the interior painted in yellow, brown and black with three birds. Diameter: 29 cm. Height: 9 cm.

Of rounded form, the rim curving inward on short foot, the decoration with a large bird and palmettes. Diameter: 19.5 cm. Height: 7 cm.

Of deep rounded form with inverted rim and standing on a small foot, decorated in a turqouise band of a calligraphy on black ground. Diameter: ...

A Persian pottery bowl of truncated conical form with flaring walls and straight vertical foot, the fritware body painted in blue with black outli...

Painted under the glaze in ochre, yellow and white against a brown ground, the interior with roundels and geometric designs enclosing leafy scroll...

Standing on a small foot with handle, decorated in brown on a crackle glaze with panels enclosing flowers and divided by an Arabic inscription in ...

Of truncated conical form with steep flaring walls stepped down to a low slightly everted foot, decorated in white slip with a single band of dark...

The frit body of baluster form with a compressed globular base resting on a short foot, the narrow tapering neck joined to a wide flaring fluted m...

The frit body of baluster form with a compressed globular base resting on a short foot, the narrow tapering ribbed neck joined to a wide flaring f...

The gold-inlaid decoration with a floral spray inlaid with polki diamonds, rubies and emeralds. Length: 6.5 cm.

Inlaid with gold with a floral pattern. Studded with polki diamonds and rubies. Height: 9 cm.

Mouthpieces for a hookah pipe. Length: 11.5 and 7.5 cm.

The amethyst body carved with stylised foliate design, central cylindrical tube within, stopper with four stylised leaves to top. 5 by 3 cm.

A cylindrical blue bottle with a flat base decorated with circles, a curved shoulder with a small neck and slightly lipped rim. The decoration, cr...

A Mughal axe or tabar in the form of an ibex and tiger, the steel crescent shaped blade emanating from a tiger and terminating in an ibex head wit...

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...

An Indo-Portuguese chaest made of wood with engraved bone veneer with ten drawers. 37.5 by 26 cm. Height: 23.5 cm. PROVENANCE Pri...

Of drop form, surmounted by a small jar, the cut-steel body around two central drop shapes formed of solid steel engraved with scrolling vine, a b...

Of circular form with flat base, straight sides and everted flat rim, engraved and decorated in copper inlay to the well with a central roundel en...

The elongated blades terminating in handles of calligraphic form, the gold damascened decoration comprising panels of dense stylised floral and fo...

Height 14 cm.

Cast and engraved with floral designs and a long needle with movable ring which helps secure the fibula to the textile, with stone inlay.Fibulae w...

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

Of rectangular openwork form, the field divided into two zones: a central rectangular zone filled with inscription on a ground of scrolling flower...

Comprising two drop-form sections fitted together with a quarter-lobed finial, featuring a tall fitted terminal above, the openwork design compris...