Opaque pigments on cloth. 128 by 96 cm.

Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. Page: 38 by 28.5 cm. Painting: 33 by 24 cm.

Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. Page: 38 by 28.5 cm. Painting: 33 by 24 cm.

Seated with head turned to left, the tail terminating in a hinge knuckle, engraved with two inscription-filled cartouches to the body, a cartouche...

Arabic manuscript on paper, written in elegant thuluth, naskh and tughra script, in red, blue and black ink. To the center with large panels enc...

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...

Arabic manuscript on paper backed on silk, written in naskh, thuluth, muhaqqaq and angular Kufic scripts in various colors. 17 by 470 cm. The s...

Arabic manuscript on paper, 384 leaves plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 12 lines, written in black naskh script, gold and polychrome roundel v...

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 14 lines of elegant black naskh. Persian interlinear translation in red nastaliq, gold and polychrome ...

A four sided cabinet with short legs and domed cover. The decoration with ebony and ivory using the inlay technique. The side faces of the cab...

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...

Of rounded form with slightly everted sides and lipped rim, the interior excessively incised and decorated with interlocking inscription-filled c...

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

A rounded bowl with inward sloping sides and a vertical rim, the sides decorated with four roundels enclosing Arabic inscriptions in thuluth scrip...

Opaque colours on paper, depicting two leafy cartouches enclosing a view of Mecca with al-Masij al-Haram and a view of Medina with al-Masjid al-Na...

Of rectangular form, embroidered in silver and gilt thread over a black silk ground, the surface broken into cartouches and panels of various shap...

Rectangular, heavily embroidered in silver and silver-gilt threads on a predominantly red cotton ground, consisting of an upper section with a rec...

The Hizam, or belt, is an inscribed band that encircles the upper part of the Kaaba, of rectangular form, inscribed over a black silk ground, the ...

Cotton covered with text written in a variety of scripts and floral design, including thuluth, naskh and square Kufic scripts, in assorted colors,...

Of rectangular form, embroidered in silver and silver-gilt thread over a black silk ground, the surface broken into cartouches of various shapes a...

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

Each door of rectangular form with vertical panels flanked above and below by horizontal panels. The vertical panels each with a central polychrom...

An embroidered hanging panel, the ground of salmon and turquoise, satin worked in couched metal-thread with calligraphy within lobed cartouches, t...

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

A Syrian Al sarraf silver and copper lamp supported on a large stand.The lamp and the lamp shades decorated with roundels enclosing six pointed st...

Of slightly tapering cylindrical form on spreading foot, the central register bounded by slightly raised bands comprising a central band of lozeng...

An Ottoman silver tray of circular shape and everted rim, elegantly inlaid with a small central roundel engraved with Basmallah in large thuluth s...