Asian Art & Antiques

A large illuminated Safavid Qur'an Persia, early 16th CenturyArabic manuscript on paper, 239 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script...

A youth reading a book and holding an apricot Safavid Persia, 17th Centurypen and ink drawing on paper with some gold and gouache, laid down on an...

A rare Safavid gold-damascened steel helmet (kulah-khud) Persia, 17th Centuryof domed form surmounted by a tapering plume holder with rounded rim,...

A Safavid lustre pottery vase Persia, 17th Centuryof globular form with stepped shoulder on a short foot, the short neck with flared mouth, decora...

A fine Safavid Astrolabe signed by Muhammed Husayn al-Yazdi ibn Muhammad Baqir and Ibn Muhamad Amir, Muhammed Mahdi al-Yazdi Persia, dated AH 1057...

Zayd revives the fainting Layla and Majnun, sprinkling them with the water of life Mughal, Oudh, attributed to Mir Kalan Khan, circa 1770gouache a...

Sa’adi and the wise men, probably from the Bustan’e Sa’adi, with a frontispiece decoration to the reverse, illuminated miniature on polished paper...

Gouache colour heightened with gold on paper, depicting Iskander watching the mermaids bathing, above and under Persian inscriptions of poems in n...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, a young man wearing a sky-blue robe with elaborate turban, a young woman wearing a gilt splashed red robe, ...

Gouache and gold on paper, four lines of text written in nasta'liq script in black ink in four columns, depicting a prophet seated in a landscape ...

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicting a seated Kay Kavous with attendants in a landscape, above lines of text written in four columns o...

Gouache and ink heightened with gold on paper, text arranged in four columns above and beneath the painting in black nastaliq script. The reverse ...

Persian manuscript on paper, 4 lines of text in large nasta'liq script in black ink within cloud bands against a finely-illuminated ground of inte...

Persian manuscript on paper, 4 lines of text written diagonally in large nasta'liq script in black ink within cloud bands against a finely-illumin...

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 ...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 36ff. with 21ll. to each page written in small neat naskh script, titles and important words picked out in red ink, oc...

An illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Majnun opens the door of a maqam surrounded by a crow...

An illustrated folio from a Khamsa of Nizami, opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, Majnun opens the door of the Kaaba surrounded by a cr...

Gouache colours heightened with gold on paper, depicting two seated figures under a blossoming tree, the margin decorated with gilt and polychrome...

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

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...

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...

Of drop-shape form in two sections, each side with an openwork cut calligraphic band with scrollwork and an exterior band of scrolling palmettes, ...

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

Of globular form rising to a thin neck with a wide rim, decorated in underglaze blue with large flowerheads surrounded by leafy palmettes, with an...

The cartouche of rectangular form with cusped ends and small arch at the centre of each horizontal edge, the body with extremely elegant and bold ...

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

Of rectangular form, embroidered on a brown silk ground with four repetitieve bands of a figure with a bow throwing an arrow at deer in a hunting ...

Three Safavid or post-Safavid (Zand) tiles, 18th century, 23.5cm x 23cm (3)   Condition Report: all three damaged refe...

Circa 1680 A.D. Ink on paper; drawing of a Western noblewoman or pilgrim; mounted with dark blue reveal in a Victorian gilt ornate frame and later...