A Chinese porcelain vase of octagonal form flanked by two lug handles, all under a greyish-blue crackled glaze. Height 22.5 cm.
A Chinese porcelain vase of octagonal form flanked by two lug handles, all under a greyish-blue crackled glaze. Height 22.5 cm.
A glass flask of compressed globular form with a long, slender, tapering neck and collar with an everted lip, on a high conical flared foot, panit...
Arabic manuscript on paper, incomplete, 79 leaves with 7 lines to each page, written in Magribi script, titles and catchwords in red and blue. Pol...
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...
A Chinese Henan brush washer resting on a knife pared foot-rim, covered overall with a lustrous black glaze streaked with metallic grey splashes r...
A Chinese Henan jar of well potted ovoid form tapering forwards the countersunk base, covered with a lustrous black glaze regularly streaked with ...
A Chinese wooden box, carved to the sides and the top with a dragon amidst clouds and surrounded by a key fret chain, resting on a double lotus ba...
A Spanish toroiseshell inlaid wooden cabinet for the islamic market, 18th century
Nine Moroccan tiles with Arabic calligraphy and geometric kufic inscriptions engraved into stone. (9) 22 by 22 cm. 13.5 cm by 13.5 cm.
The potted jar of compressed form, moulded with vertical ribs extending from below the short neck to the thick foot, the lobed cover in the form o...
A Chinese celadon figure of the god of war, Guan Yu, covered with a light green glaze to the foot, semi-hollow base with an unglazed foot-rim burn...
100% natural plant-based dyes. On a plain turquoise-colored background, a relief-cut pattern reminiscent of Aztec, Inca, and South American cultur...
A Chinese porcelain stem cup standing on a small flaring foot with flaring sides, covered overall with a pale ice-blue translucent glaze. Diame...
On a sloped spreading foot rising to slightly flared rim, engraved around the base and the body with princely figures, mythical beasts and warrior...
The group comprises: a Chinese hinghed silver and enamel fourfold snuff bottle (4 particular parts), two Chinese cloisonne snuff bottles decorated...
Each carved with inscriptions in nastaliq script. Largest: 22 mm Smallest: 10 mm
Gouache colour on paper, depicting a Persian figure wearing a brown robe and holding a stick in his hand. 16 by 21 cm.
Gouache pigments heightened with gold on paper, laid down on an album page with outer polychrome borders, depicting a Hindu woman seated with a Mu...
With rounded sides and flattened rim. The interior carved and incised with a peony in a medallion in the centre, the well with a continuous flower...
Of typical flaring cylindrical shape, with a wide everted rim, made of gold sheets wrapped around a central copper core, the exterior finely paint...
One of the most important figures of the Tang Dynasty. He is renowned for his poetry, which often reflects the beauty of nature, the enjoyment of ...
A Chinese porcelain jar, decorated in famille rose enamels around the body with precious items, above a petal lappet border. The shoulder is styli...
A Chinese porcelain incense burner, resting on tapering feet, decorated on each side with a roundel of key-fret chain enclosing a dragon, cranes, ...
The rounded sides lightly moulded on the exterior with a band of upturned lotus petals, covered overall in a glaze of soft bluish sea-green tone, ...
Painted around the steep flaring sides with eight lança characters enclosed within undulating lotus stems issuing stylised blossoms and acanthus l...
A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and red rules, gold roundel ...
A Chinese porcelain vase, the rounded shoulders tapering to the slightly splayed foot, surmounted by a waisted neck with an everted rim, covered o...
A Chinese porcelain bowl resting on a small foot, decorated in famille rose enamels with scholars under a pine tree in a landscape, with a crane f...
The body is of slightly compressed spherical shape, surmounted by a fluted domed neck and drum-shaped top, brightly enamelled with the Eight Buddh...
A Chinese porcelain vase, the large globular lower bulb sweeping up to a smaller upper bulb rising to a slender neck and flared mouth, the lower b...
A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 lines to each page in bold black naskh script within a gilt and black border. Two opening biofoli...
The well-potted vase of archaistic design, with a globular body bearing two horizontally incised bowstring lines, rising to an everted neck and ge...
The dish is finely decorated to the centre with a star-shaped panel enclosing two birds in flight above a deer in a lake scene, all surrounded by ...
A Persian double gourd vase with small flaring mouth, decorated in cobalt blue and black with floral leafy sprays, the base with sea waves and lea...
A Persian pottery bowl, resting on a small foot ring with a slightly flared rim, decorated in yellow, brown and red on a cream-colored ground, the...
Five pierced brass calligraphic panel, each with lines in elegant thuluth script, surrounded by pierced brass leafy band. Inscriptions: S...
A Chinese white glazed stem cup, decorated in high relief with two chilong, with deep underglaze copper red splashes. Height 10 cm. Diam. 10.6 cm....
A Persian steel dagger with a curved double-edged blade of watered steel with floral engraved decoration. The hilt and the health engraved with in...
The tureen is fashioned with two upward swept gilt handles and a domed cover surmounted by a mushroom-cap finial, all on an oval stand. Each ...
A Chinese porcelain pot with slightly everted rim, decorated in cobalt blue with two Buddhist lions. The base is unglazed. Diameter: 23 cm. ...
A Persian pottery vase, decorated with mihrab-shaped panels enclosing a seated dignitary and women dancing to music, divided by floral motifs, all...
The body decorated with a landscape and figural scene, the neck with flower sprays. The base decorated with a double blue ring. Height 28 cm.
A glass inkwell with circular base and small neck, the shoulder engraved with an inscriptions in thuluth script. Inscriptions: part of Ayat a...
Arabic manuscript on paper, 7 lines, written diagonally in black naskh script, set within cloud bands reserved against a gilt ground, adorned with...
Shaving bowl or barbers bowl on footring, spreading flat rim with a semicircular section saved in the lower part, with two pierced. Decorated in...
Of accentuated inverted drop-shape with pointed lower terminal. Length 12 cm.
A Chinese porcelain vase decorated in famille rose enamels with two birds etched amongst peony blossoming branches. Height: 35 cm.
A bronze figure cast seated in paryankasna on a beaded double-lotus throne, his right hand in bhumisparsa mudra and the left in dhyana mudra, wear...
Each dish is decorated to the centre with a roundel enclosing scrolling lotus, the rims are decorated with a further scroll band. The exterior is ...
A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and polychrome rules, gold r...
A delicate woodblock print depicting two women in elegant Heian-era kimono, seated gracefully beside a standing lantern. 34.5 by 22.7 cm. Wi...
A delicate ukiyo-e woodblock print depicting a graceful geisha dressed in an intricately patterned kimono. The figure’s poised stance, elaborate h...
Rectangular in shape, two green velvet panels stitched together, each side is heavily decorated with a thread of gold-plated and silver-plated lus...
The six-armed blue Mahakala wearing a tiger-skin dhoti, with barred teeth and curled tongue, wearing skull crown, standing on a lotus base over a ...
Two small Chinese vases with tubular handles, covered with an olive green celadon glaze, the base is glazed except for the rim, which burned red i...
A Persian manuscript on paper, comprising four lines of finely executed black nasta?l?q script, inscribed within cloud-shaped reserves set against...
A traditional Japanese woodblock print depicting two elegantly dressed court ladies in intricately patterned kimonos, seated gracefully beside a l...
A Chinese celadon bowl standing on a short foot with slightly conical siders, the interior impressed with figures below a key fret chain, covered ...
Two Chinese wood panels of rectangular form with soapstone inlays in the form of peony and lotus flower branches in a vase, a sceptre and a pendan...