Islamic Art & Antiques

A small safavid painted lacquer panel, depicting a youth in dalliance with a maiden at a picnic, a female attendant looking on. persia, perhaps is...

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

A Mughal brass door knocker, 17th century, Safavid or Deccan India, the pierced tubular body with each terminal cast in the form of a stylised ...

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...

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

A Persian turquoise glazed pottery oil lamp, Safavid dynasty, 68mm h Provenance: Cotterill Collection, sold in these 'rooms October 2015, lot 7...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

PERSIAN SCHOOL, 18THC. SAFAVID PAGE, DEPICTS A VILLAGE CELEBRATION WITHIN GILT BORDER OF ANIMALS. LINE AND WASH, 26.5 X 21.5 CM

A SAFAVID SILK TEXTILE PANEL, 17TH CENTURY, PERSIA 56cm x 51cm

A SILK & SILVER THREAD TEXTILE, SAFAVID, PERSIA. 17TH CENTURY 55cm x 53cm

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...

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

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...

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 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, ...

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 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 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 ...

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

LAHORE SAFAVID DESIGN CARPET, 310cm x 240cm.

A LARGE SAFAVID BLUE AND WHITE POTTERY DISH PERSIA, 17TH CENTURY 十七世纪萨法维 波斯青花盘 painted with a Chinese style landscape scene with mountains and pag...

A fine Safavid Astrolabe signed by Muhammed Husayn al-Yazdi ibn Muhammad Baqir and Ibn Muhamad Amir, Muhammed Mahdi al-Yazdi Persia, dated AH 105...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A very large find carved floral mortis, copper tinted Bucket, with a handle comprising of 2 Dragon heads. Safavid , 17th century Persian, Iran or ...

AFTER MIR MUSAVIR, Iran/Persia, late 19th/early 20th C. - Nushirvan and the Owls, gouache and gold on card, panels at top containing text in nast...

A moulded and figural pottery tile, Qajar Iran, late 19th / early 20th century, Perhaps Rustam on Rakhsh or Bahram Gur, a mounted knight brandis...

A framed and glazed worn gilt-metal thread embroidered velvet panel, Safavid Iran, 17th century, A dense floral field with scattered silver th...

A courtly figural silk and two colours velvet panel, Safavid Iran, c.1600, the silk surround, Qajar Iran, 19th century, Probably a royal commis...

A large framed hemispherical moulded polychrome figural pottery tile, Tehran, Qajar Iran, c.1860, An interpretation of the Safavid ruler Shah Abb...

A composite embroidered silk on velvet panel, Safavid or Zand Iran, c.1750, The field embroidered with repeating serrated botehs interspersed wit...

A silk and velvet embroidered panel, Safavid Iran, c.1750, With repeated boteh design in red interspersed with repeating cross potent or botonée,...

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...