Distemper and gold on cloth. This Vastrapata is a rare jain painting. It is of an early style that relates to the famed Kalpasutra manuscripts, e...

Opaque pigments on textile.253 by 227 cm.CATALOGUE NOTEThe festival Sharat Purnima, depicted here is widely celebrated in Rajasthan to symbolize ...

Opaque water color and gold on cloth.The painting of Radha and Krishna encapsulates the essence of Kishangartyle. The slim figures, the elongated ...

Opaque pigments on textile.The Kala (Black) and The Gora (White) Bhairava were the sons of goddess Kali. The images of the two brothers are placed...

This example is a striking and beautiful painting, characteristic of the North Rajasthan region centered around Bikaner State and is possibly a l...

Opaque water color on paper. Three Ragamala paintings of Raga Basant, Shri Raga and Asavari Ragini.29 by 21.5 cm.

167 by 103 cm.

Gouache heightened with gold on paper.Nine portraits of Sikh Rulers with description written in Nastaliq and Persian script on the verso.Maharaj...

A standing portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, gouache heightened with gold on paper. 39.5 by 29.5 cm.

Maharaja Bhim Singh Of Devgarh. Relaxing inside the courtyard of his palace entertained by ladies of his harem.Gouache heightened with gold on pap...

Ink on paper with the use of gold, inner borders decorated with animals and vegetation in colors and gold, outer border with illuminated panels cu...

Three pages, one depicting a couple in a landscape, two with poems.Pencil and pen heightened with gold on paper, laid down on album page. 22 by 8 ...

Each page consisting of a two lines written in thuluth script in black ink, interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in gold, black and red,...

Opaque watercolor, ink, gold on papertypical (feast) scene. Traditionally, the prince is seated holding the two key symbols of Persian kingship, a...

Persian manuscript on paper, the central panel consisting of siyah mashq in large nastaliq script in black ink on a gold-decorated ground, separat...

Calligraphy, ink and gold on paper, laid down on card.Text: 29.5 by 20 cm. Page: 38 by 28 cm.

Ink, gouache and gold on paper pasted on a cardboard page, four in Persian, in Nastaliq, in reserve in clouds on a gold background garnished with ...

Pen and ink on lacquered paper, a bear, his tongue lolling from his mouth, props himself up against a leafless branch, slight staining, laid down ...

Ink, gouache and gold on paper pasted on a cardboard page, four in Persian, in Nastaliq, on a gold background garnished with foliage.Text: 23 by 1...

Persian manuscript on paper, verso with 4 lines of elegant black nastaliq in clouds reserved against a hatched ground decorated with meandering fl...

Two armies, made up of twelve horsemen, armed with sabers and spears and two mahouts on elephant backs, are engaged in battle; some, taken aback, ...

Page from a Khamse of Nizami.Two armies of horsemen are engaged in battle in a golden landscape, under a blue sky covered with clouds. Borders wit...

A miniature painting depicting the king Bahram Gur, also known as Bahram V, the fifteenth Sasanian King of Persia from 420 – 438 A.D. He was the ...

The scene in this miniature painting depicts the Sasanian king Bahram Gur (420-438 AD) who was a dominant figure in Persian history and was celebr...

Page of a Shah Name.Bahram Chubina and Khosrow Parviz, both in armor and mounted on caparisoned horses, engage in a duel in a bluish hilly landsca...

A standing portrait of a youth holding a pomegranate in his left hand and a bottle in his right hand.Opaque pigments heightened with gold on pape...

Of rectangular form with coffered lid, the body and lid all decorated with panels of naskh and Quranic verses inscription in and around a ground o...

A cast bronze jug with a dragon handle. Globular body, resting on a low foot-ring, short cylindrical neck which has a collar at its lower end a ro...

The body covered with an opaque white glaze, with two Kufic lines around the body.Inscriptions possibly the repeat of 'abdahu, 'His (God's) serva...

Gouache on cream paper, the bearded nobleman sitting in an interior on a carpet, wearing a tall black hat, a red Kirman embroidered coat with bote...

Black pen on paper, the lion formed of black thuluth on cream paper, highlighted with gold flowers, mounted, with blue borders with gold floral de...

The nobleman dressed in a red jama, mounted on a prancing stallion holds a hunting falcon in his gloved right hand. A quiver of arrows and his bow...

Decorated in gold with real and mythical beasts in a landscape.29 by 21.5 cm.

Painting: 23 by 13.5 cm.Folio: 31.5 by 19.5 cm.

Depicting archers arriving at the walls of a fortress, gouache heightened with gold on paper, text written in two lines of nastaliq script, with g...

31.5 by 20 cm. (2)

Painting16.5 cm. by 20.5 cm.

Ink, gouache and gold on paper pasted on a cardboard page, four in Persian, in Nastaliq, in reserve in clouds on a gold background garnished with ...

Ink and gouache on paper.This miniature depicts a scene of men surrounding a bearded king wearing a crown who stands above a noble man on a pink a...

Miniature depicting the hero Rustem grabbing Khaqan of China with a lasso and knocking him down from his white elephant, as armies on both sides b...

On three feet, decorated with silver floral motifs and arabesque decoration and inscriptions.15 cm. diam.PROVENANCEPreviously in a Private Japanes...

On a spreading base, the openwork body tapering towards with neck, rising to a bulbous section surmounted by a six-pointed openwork star and peaco...

Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 356 pages plus 2 flyleaves, 12 lines to the page, written in black naskh, verses separated by gold and polychrome...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 298 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and...

Arabic manuscript on blue paper, 64 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 33 lines of elegant gold naskh, gold verse roundels, surah headings ...

Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 393 leaves plus two flyleaves, 11 lines to the page, written in naskh script in black ink with three large lines,...

Du'a al-Sabah Hazrat Amir al-Muminin 'Ali.Arabic manuscript on paper, 10 leaves, with 6 lines of neat black naskh script arranged in cloud bands o...

COPIED BY MUSTAFA, BETTER KNOWN AS MULLA AHMAD-ZADEH ISLAMIVI, A PUPIL OF YAHYA AL-LUTFI OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 22ND SHA'BAN 1249AH/4TH JANUARY 18...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 322 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and...

Abu'Abdallah Muhammad Bin Suleyman Al-Jazuli, Dala'lil Al-Khayrat Wa Shawariq Al-Anwar, prayers with two full page illustrations of the holy shrin...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 419 leaves, 13 lines to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and...

An Arabic manuscript on paper with 360 leaves and 3 flyleaves, 13 lines to each page in muhaqqaq, naskh and thuluth scripts, incidentals in thulth...

Arabic and Turkish manuscript on buff paper.40 Leaves, plus4 flyleaves with notes of the owner, 19 lines to the page in columns and horizontal div...

With central rectangular panels decorated with spiraling leaf-like designs, the borders with orange cusped cartouches on green ground, each regist...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 144 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 9 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in gold, verses separated by g...

Persian manuscript on paper, 41 leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in nastaliq script in black ink, titles in gold, text arranged in two column...

Arabic manuscript on paper, written in naskh and in the angular Kufic script in black and red.135 by 15.5 cm.Surah Al-Ikhlas is written 12 times i...

This drawing of unusual form comes from a group of drawings which are attributed to the master artist of the late 14th-early 15th century, 'Ustad ...

Persian manuscripts on paper of 178 leaves with 12 lines to each page, written in black nastaliq script in two columns within gold and blue border...

Persian manuscript on paper, 290 leaves, incomplete, 31 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, significant sentences and words p...