A Multan pottery thick tile of square form and decorated in cobalt blue and turquoise with geometric designs. 23 by 23 by 3.5 cm.

A fine frit-ware barbed dish resting on a short foot-ring with deep concave sides and a slightly lobed rim, decorated in the centre and around the...

Decorated in cobalt blue, turquoise and red with medallion shaped cartouches containing tulips and carnations, all within arabesque patterned bord...

Of rectangular form, the cobalt-blue ground with a meandering tendril linking a serrated leaf overpainted by flowers, a part rosette at each end i...

A panel of four square Ottoman Empire Dome of the Rock tiles, painted in underglaze cobalt blue with a trellis of split and winged palmettes with ...

The feline is shown seated facing forward, with mouth closed, large ears pricked, tail curled over the right rear haunch, with a bell-hung collar....

A Khorassan bronze bowl standing on a flared foot adorned with a band of animated naskh inscriptions on a dense scroll ground, the rounded body wi...

Of cylindrical form, on a splayed base, decorated with narrow bands of scrolling palmettes and floral arabesques, the neck with a central band com...

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

180 by 120 cm.PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany

Of long rectangular form, woven in red, blue, green and cream silk, the central panel with alternating horizontal bands of floral interlace and ca...

With rounded body rising from short flared foot, the long neck with pronounced turquoise central boss, s-shaped spout and simple loop handle linki...

A frustoconical shaped glass vase with enamel decoration of floral medallions interlacing palmettes, singed Brocard Paris and dated 1871. Hei...

A polychrome-painted and lacquered wood saddle, of typical shape, the top painted in bright red, green, blue, black and white, circles, geometric...

Mirza Saeed Khan Ansari or simply Sa'id Mo'tamen ol-Molk, was the prime minister of Iran (Persia) during the Qajar dynasty under king Naser od-Din...

Watercolor on paper. 25.5 by 16 cm.

Prince with a maiden and attendants in a Pavillion. Gouache heightened with gold on paper. With a floral border. 38 by 28 cm.

A cloth bohca of square form, elegantly and densely embroidered in silver threads flowers and foliage. The corners with classic scrolls of interlo...

Of rectangular shape, threads on a silk cream ground with black voided silk outlines on a red silk ground, depicting rows of diamond shapes enclos...

Of rectangular form, the silver thread embroidery on a blue ground arranged in a central panel enclosing a basket filled with flowers, surrounded ...

A rectangular textile woven fragment, comprising three sections superbly and colourfully embroidered in satin stitch. The red velvet central pa...

CATALOGUE NOTE The inscriptions are a repetition of 'Malbus Aleafia'. ????? ???????138 by 75 cm.

The registers decorated with calligraphy, foliate designs interspersed with narrow registers of foliate designs picked out in gold thread. 23.5...

Of rectangular form, the predominantly red ground embroidered in polychrome silks with a central panel containing hunting nobles and other figures...

Decorated with an eagle sitting on a rock in a landscape. Diameter 20.5 cm.

A Chinese porcelain dish, finely decorated to the centre with a star-shaped panel enclosing a bird perched on a rock below a butterfly in flight a...

Each vase with a flaring trumpet neck and domed base of the Gu form, finely enameled with the Eight Precious Objects, bajixiang, adorned with flut...

A Chinese porcelain pear shaped vase, decorated in cobalt blue with ducks amongst plants in a lake scene, set two lappet petal borders to the base...

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

The bulbous body of the square-form vase is decorated with a pair of taotie-mask handles with loose rings, supported on a tall spreading foot. The...

A Chinese guanyin bronze figure. The deity is cast with a serene expression on her face, her hair is piled high on her head which is held by an el...

Chinese archaic bronze rectangular ritual food vessel, cast in relief with a band of bats and leiwen above protruding spikes and hooked corner fla...

Cheek bits for the attachment of leather straps, cast of circular form with three equally-spaced mask decorations. Diameter: 7.5 cm.

A Chinese bronze vase rising from a flared foot to the pear-shaped body and a slightly waisted neck, bird shaped handle attached with rings to the...

A Chinese porcelain octagonal bowl resting on a small foot with slightly everted rim, each side decorated in cobalt blue with a scholar seated in ...

The sword is of typical tapering form. The handle is decorated with two raised ribs leading to a circular pommel. Length: 48 cm. PROVENANCE Pr...

With loop handle and tall spout with curved bridge, with moulded decoration of prunus branches on both sides. Height 12 cm.

A Chinese porcelain scalloped dish, decorated to the centre in cobalt-blue with Buddhist emblems and ruyi heads, to the sides with peaches amongst...

The bowl with flared sides and everted rim, supported on a small foot, covered on the exterior with an even sacrificial-blue glaze and applied in ...

A Chinese octagonal porcelain bowl, the eight sides decorated in cobalt blue with lotus, peony and chrysanthemum blossoming branches growing from ...

Diameter: 19 cm. Height: 17 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany

The watercup and dropper combined in the shape of a peach and seed-pod, the stem forming a short handle, and a small pod the brush rest, with leav...

A Chinese porcelain jar with compressed body, decorated in cobalt blue with a large band of scrolling peonies amongst foliage, the base with a pet...

The deity draped with jewels is depicted seated in lalitasana on a double lotus base, with her hands held before her in dharmachakramudra and her ...

The body tapers slightly towards the foot and is flanked by a pair of molded mock handles in the shape of inverted vases below the high shoulder a...

A Tibetan yak bone crown of 5 fragments, each pierced with a seated deitiy seated in dhyanasana on a double-lotus pedestal, her loose-fitting robe...

The bodhisattva is shown standing on a square stand with right hand raised and holding in the proper left hand bottle. He wears a dhoti gathered b...

With rounded sides and slightly everted rim on a short foot, the exterior carved in relief with a frieze of Chinese-influenced meandering vines be...

The four-lobed pear-shaped body, trumpet neck and two zoomorphic pierced handles all under an even finely-mottled glaze of greenish tone, extendin...

A Chinese porcelain vase, rising from a short foot to a compressed body, waisted tapering neck and a flared rim, brightly painted around the exter...

A bronze sculpture of a wrathful deity from the Hindu pantheon of Nepal. The bronze of the deity with a third eye on the forehead is standing on a...

The well-rounded body is potted with a narrow neck rising to a flaring mouth and supported on a short spreading foot ring. The vase is covered in ...

The exterior of the ovoid jar is delicately outlined in underglaze blue and enameled in green to depict two five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flam...

A Chinese bronze figure of a Guanyin, seated in dhyanasana, hands in vitarka mudra, dressed in a monastic robe with finely incised borders of flor...

Decorated in a vibrant blue with dignitaries, a dragon and a dragon slayer, in a continuous rocky landscape and a terrace scene. Height: 47 cm.

Finely modeled with incised chin, bow-shaped mouth, elongated eyes and gently arching brows, flanked by pendulous earlobes, the hair in tight curl...

The tower is decorated to the body with a band of lion masks above densely scrolling lotus. The domed vessel opens to reveal a gilt Buddha with ha...

The vase is painted in cobalt blue with two three-clawed dragons chasing a flaming earl amongst clouds, above a band of classic scroll. The should...

Height: 22 cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Germany.

A Chinese figure of bodhisattva, standing with the slender left arm suspended by the side grasping a sash in the fleshy hand, the right arm tucked...