Gouache heightened with gold on paper, ruled in black and blue, with a thin green border. Depicting the holy Nabawi-Mosque surrounded by houses i...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 22 lines to each page, written in brown Maghribi script, catchwords and titles is red ink, occasional marginal notes. ...

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...

Rectangular in shape, two dark green velvet panels stitched together, each side is heavily decorated with a thread of gold-plated and silver-plate...

Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper. 31 by 20.5 cm. 24 by 14 cm.

Gouache heightened with gold on paper. Maharaja of Kotah holding a durbar with his courtiers and a British Regent. Below dancers and musicians e...

Opaque pigments heightened on paper. 25 by 17.5 cm. 15 by 8 cm.

This bronze censer, or incense burner, is composed of two parts that were molded separately. First, a circular base in relief supports a lower hem...

Bowl in light grey-beige clay covered with a white slip, decoration painted in black under a magnificent turquoise glaze, thicker on the bottom wh...

A Persian pottery jug with drop-shaped body and high shoulder rising to a ribbed neck, vertical mouth with small spout and a simple handle. Decora...

The flat, perfectly turned, is hemispherical in shape and ends in a wide almost horizontal edge. It is supported by a ring foot. The lip is rounde...

The bowl, hemispherical and low in shape, is supported by a circular base, slightly concave. The wall flares upwards and ends in a rounded edge. T...

A heavy glass seal, cast of circular form stamped on one side with a six-line kufic inscription. "Ordered it the Servant of Allah, Commander of t...

A pottery jug standing on a splayed unglazed foot-ring and base, globular body with tall and wide cylindrical neck with handle and small thumb-pie...

Transparent bluish glass. This mold-blown vessel has a globular shape, with a flattened, slightly hollow shoulder. The cylindrical neck is prov...

A Kashan lustre pottery rosewater sprinkler with squat circular body and tapering neck with everted rim, painted in dark and yellowish brown on a ...

The octagonal tile painted with a central square panel issuing scrolling floral designs from each corner, the central square panel filled with fou...

Of deep conical form, painted in lustre heightened in cobalt blue and turquoise on a cream ground, with a central medallion of swimming fish again...

Siliceous paste. The thin-walled, fragile vase is supported by a small annular foot; its spherical but squashed body ends in a vertical rim. Th...

Of squat rounded form on short foot, the decoration follows a precise pattern, running from the base of the body to the rim. It is made up of alte...

A Persian pottery bottle vase, rising from a short foot to a compressed body tapering to thin cylindrical neck, with a garlic-head mouth and short...

The bowl, worked on a potter's wheel, is truncated cone-shaped and ends with a small vertical rim and a flat lip. The decoration is dominated by...

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 ...

An outstanding hemispherical bowl, decorated with a black and white pattern painted under a beautiful turquoise glaze. The interlaced motifs int...

A glass bowl with conical sides, decorated to the centre in honey-coloured lustre with two elegant peafowls flaring their feathers, the walls with...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, the ruler sitting against a bolster and with a hookah pipe in his hand and attendants stand behind. He watc...

This alluring glass jug is a fine example of Islamic glass making from the early Medieval Islamic Period. Glass making production after the fall o...

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...

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...

The ovoid body with a domed hinged cover surmounted by a baluster-form finial, decorated with palmettes containing an openwork foliate design sepa...

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...

In the Mamluk style, of hexagonal cylindrical form standing on knopped baluster feet supporting arched openings, an arched opening with two doors ...

Of typical form with raised knop at the front and the back, the curved wooden frame with the tughra of Mahmud II and the coat of arms of the Otto...

Of typical form, with hinged shelf and bracket sections, decorated overall with gilt engraved scrolling geometric designs containing cartouches at...

51.5 by 51.5 cm. CATALOGUE NOTE Similar one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum.

With flat base and slightly sloping sides, the upper edge with slight recess to fit a lid, the exterior wooden surface overlaid in a succession of...

On straight foot, the black decoration under transparent turquoise-blue glaze with an ewer on floral ground, the gently sloping rim with interlock...

Rising from flat base to oval shaped body with slightly flaring rim, open slightly curved spout also with flaring rim, the body decorated with car...

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

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...

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

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

Of columnar form, with flaring foot and everted rim, the body marked with two rings, the main register with engraved decoration comprising of alte...

The body of truncated conical form with flanged base, perforated bands and everted drip-pan, the shaft with globed perforated bulb, the socket of ...

Of fan shape, composed of three rows, pierced with a large thuluth inscription amongst interlacing spiraling vines in the centre, between two rows...

An Islamic Kashan figure of a bird, with a stand covered with a turquoise crackle glaze and decorated with black lines. Width: 10 cm. Height:...

A Qajar engraved brass Qibla indicator, the lid opening, the face engraved with astrological signs. Indicator Astrolabe. Folding engraved gnomen. ...

An Ottoman wooden box inlaid with mother of pearl, decorated with roundels enclosing engraved Christian figures. 15 by 25 cm. Height: 17 cm.

With rectangular body on small four feet, the cover and the four sides inlaid and engraved with different figural scenes, a king in his court, the...

A large mother-of-pearl inlaid wood Mirror of rectangular form with feet and tapering crest, decorated in mother of pearl fragments featuring leaf...

Of typical shape, the turban holder shelf slanting forward at 2/3 of the full height. The decoration consisting of mother-of-pearl and bone fragm...

The box with ring hinged drop front revealing six interior drawers, front and sides densely inlaid with floral patterns on a small triangles inlai...

Of columnar form, with flaring foot and everted rim, the body marked with two rings, the main register with engraved decoration comprising of alte...

Of rectangular form with feet and tapering crest, decorated in mashribiyya, mother-of-pearl inlay, the crest in openwork with interlaced vines. Th...

On three hoof feet, the features defined with inlaid silver with drop shaped cartouches Silver-inlay. Height: 23 cm.

Into two parts with yellow-green tinge, and applied roundels. Intact. Height: 9 cm.

The body with rows of wheel-cut roundels with iridescence, intact. Height: 9 cm.

Of oval form, the cloudy glass with visible bubbles, decorated in cobalt blue and red enamel with stylized flower heads between two thin bands aro...

Oak sculpture of Madonna and Child in very good condition of conservation. 19th century restoration and polychrome. Extensive condition report ...

Rectangular, the red ground embroidered with silver and gilt thread with appliqué panels, the large cartouche containing a frieze of thuluth inscr...